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• News & Views | 22 March 2019

  A light ride to the stars

  By tailoring the anisotropy of light scattering along the surface of a macroscopic flat object, mechanical stabilization can be achieved without focused incident light or excessive constraints on the shape, size or material composition of the object.

  • Romain Quidant

• Editorial | 29 January 2016

  First step to observing gravitational waves

  Designed with a laser metrology system, LISA Pathfinder is on track to demonstrate the first in-flight test of low-frequency gravitational wave detection metrology in space.

• Research Highlights | 02 May 2012

  Overcoming Coriolis

  • David Pile