lasers

The handheld laser pointers you can buy at office supplies stores are legally required to be no powerful than…

Engineers at MIT have come up with a new approach to medical imaging that is both non-invasive and hands-off the…

You can now add ‘30 million-watt peak power tattoo removing laser’ to the long list of things you probably shouldn’t…

Laser pointers: they’re not just for taunting cats anymore. Marine researchers claim that at least some species of…

Raytheon has announced that it delivered the first publicly acknowledged anti-drone laser weapon to the U.S. Air…

Projectors can be a cheaper and far more convenient way to put a gigantic 100+ inch TV in your living room. But to…

If you’ve ever watched a science-fiction movie, you might think you know what lasers sound like: some variation of a…

Researchers have combined laser techniques and an ingenious detection scheme in order to create a powerful new…

The U.S. Air Force announced on Friday that it had successfully used a ground-based surrogate for its laser weapons…

It’s not quite seeing through walls, but scientists are working to engineer light beams so that they can pass…

Scientists have devised a way to communicate secretly by sending laser-transmitted messages directly into the area…

An experiment using intense laser pulses has allowed scientists to watch plants produce oxygen from water part of…

If there is a God and he is indeed omniscient, it is also true that he foresaw the human race’s ability to create a…

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics didn’t just make discoveries. Their…

Scientists Arthur Ashkin from the U.S.-based Bell Labs, Gérard Mourou from École Polytechnique in France, and Donna…

We’re up for a big week in the news, folks. There’s a lot going to happen, from Apple’s big September 12th…

Over-the-top Nerf battles are a fun and (mostly) painless way to determine who in the office has to buy the donuts…

As the U.S. prepares for war in space, China’s bringing the space war home. Its ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is…

When discussing a big-screen TV, size is bound to be the primary topic of conversation, but with Hisense’s 100-inch…

An enormous laser targeted for shutdown by proposed federal budget cuts has just done some record-breaking science…