China is building a mega-laser that's so powerful it could literally tear space apart. Physicists in Shanghai are constructing what they call a 'Station of Extreme Light', which could be operational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites. MuthuKutty/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Russia is building a new ground-based ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There are rumors the Russians are restarting their laser tank program. Near the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union began experimenting with the idea of fielding a ...

Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

The U.S. Army is issuing the call to develop an ultrashort pulse laser. The laser is designed to unleash “enormous power” in a fraction of the time a regular laser weapon lasts. The weapon should have ...

nLIGHT LASR builds the high-power laser building blocks that are increasingly central to modern defense systems. The company’s position spans directed energy lasers and optical sensing, alongside a ...

As a society, we’ve largely come together to agree that laser pointers are mostly useless. They’re now the preserve of university lecturers and those destined to wind up in a jail cell for harassing ...

Even the smallest of deformations in structures such as buildings or bridges can lead to cracks, so the sooner that they're noticed, the better. A new laser-based system is designed to do just that, ...

A test exposure on cyanotype paper shows off the prototype’s resolution, around 100 microns. Typically, when it comes to scanning a laser, it’s done with galvos or a rotating mirror assembly. However, ...

An arts nonprofit beamed a dozen laser space cannons through some of San Francisco’s most iconic buildings, lighting up the downtown skyline over the weekend. Shreenivasan Manievannan captured ...