Earlier this year the U.S. Army shot down a number of hostile drones in the Middle East using a weapon long dismissed as more science fiction than reality—the laser. After decades of costly ...

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One solution could come from a technology called “free-space optics” (FSO), which uses lasers to transfer data through the air. It was pioneered in the 1960s by NASA and for decades has been a ...

A Harvard medical student recently completed an "egg-citing" experiment. Nick Norwitz, 25, decided to eat 720 eggs in one month to see what the effect would be on his cholesterol. At the end of ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is depicted receiving a laser signal from the Deep Space Optical Communications uplink ground station at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility in this artist’s concept.

Two, use intense lasers to make a succession of even smaller stars, but repeat the process several times per second. Moritz von der Linden, the co-founder and CEO of Marvel Fusion, likes his odds ...

Nick Norwitz, a Harvard medical student, shares the surprising results of his daring food experiment. The best war movies of all time, based on ratings—and no, #1 isn't 'Apocalypse Now' I'm 72 ...

If you need high-quality printing in a snap, a laser printer can produce clean, sharp prints in as little as a few seconds. But, after three weeks of testing each device, not all laser printers ...

Laser levels offer precision, reliability, and a measure of safety. Unlike traditional bubble levels, laser levels project a beam of light that serves as a reference point for various construction ...