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Set lasers to star mode. The European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile now has four powerful…

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Setting fire to things isn’t in and of itself science. But if you record it using schlieren photography at 10,000…

Many autonomous cars use LIDAR — a kind of laser-based radar — to sense the world around them. But now a researcher…

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester has managed to levitate nanodiamonds in a vacuum using laser…

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This breathtaking photo shows the intense orange beam of a new 22-watt laser pointed at the planet Saturn. Wait,…

Charles Townes, the physicist whose work would help lay the foundations for the development of the laser died today.…

This may look like a fairly normal satellite image of Berlin, but it holds a rather special secret: it's the first…

Unlicensed drones spying on China better watch out because the People's Republic reportedly has a super terrifying…

Not how to destroy an entire planet, but how humans are able to create a star—with the help of a laser tuned to…

It's like watching a ballerina dance. It's like seeing an invisible hold never let go. It's a multi-axis laser…

From the DIY Laser Guy: "I present my most terrifying laser creation as of yet... the remote controlled death ray…

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This ten-minute video details the rediscovery of Mahendraparvata, a lost city that once thrived in the mountains of…