NASA beamed back a laser message from half a billion kilometers away 100 times faster than using radio waves
NASA’s new laser technology brings deep space communication closer to broadband speeds.
Tag: laser
Satellite-based radar shows how much Chinese cities have grown in the past three decades
The technique could be used for a wide array of urban studies.
Revolutionary acoustic technology can move and rotate objects using sound waves
The manipulation of objects using light and sound waves has just taken a significant leap forward.
Pentagon funds quantum laser to overcome battlefield challenges
This military-grade quantum laser would penetrate fog and travel longer distances.
Researchers want to clean up oil spills with laser-treated cork
Scientists just uncorked a very useful new material.
Chinese scientists claim they’ve figured out how to power stealth submarines with lasers
Chinese researchers make a breakthrough in silent, super-fast submarine propulsion.
British military successfully tests laser weapon that zaps drones mid-air
Laser weapons are no longer limited to movies and cartoons.
NASA uses laser to stream first video in deep space — and of course it’s a cat vid
NASA knows what's up.
Researchers develop human-portable lasers to better study the health of glaciers
Anything involving lasers is undeniably cool.
Laser beam fired through keyhole can see what’s moving behind the door
Oh well. More privacy-shattering tech.
Protesters in Chile bring down police drones using simple laser pointers. Lots and lots of laser pointers
In Chile, protesters are using lasers en masse to bring down hapless police drones. https://gph.is/g/E0lDMQ5 Videos of Chilean protesters bringing ...
Laser technology study reveals 1,000 monuments on ancient Scottish Isle
Lidar is proving its remarkable potential more and more.
Ceramic welding lasers
The team says their technique could lead to devices that don't scratch or shatter, metal-free pacemakers, or electronics for harsh ...
MIT technique can shrink objects down to the nanoscale
The technique can produce structures one-thousandth the size of the originals.
Ultrafast laser bursts generate electricity faster than anything we know
A beautiful example of theory and experiment working together to advance science.
World’s first continuous room-temperature maser open door to new applications
A major breakthrough in physics.
China deems blasting space junk with a laser station is feasible
It's a super James Bond-esque idea.
New 3D Radar mapping system could revolutionize rescue missions
Capable of mapping environments in 3D and distinguishing between materials, it could help save a lot of lives.
First operational laser weapon set to safeguard US ships from menacing drones
Blowing stuff up at the speed of light.
Computer chip can mimic human neurons using only beams of light
Just MIT doing a bit of light thinking.
Spiders are just like cats: they too like chasing laser pointers
It's better than Batman.
Sci-fi buffs everywhere, rejoyce! The UK military is developing laser weapons
The prototype should be delivered in 2019.
High-power lasers create ‘smoke rings’ that travel along the beam with the speed of light
Smoke on the light, fire in the sky.
What touching Fairy Holograms in mid-air looks like
Most people would love to a holographic display in their rooms, and seriously you might not have to wait too ...
Forget about razor blades – it’s time to welcome the laser razor
Despite manufacturers have tirelessly designed new types of razor blades for a cleaner shave, the process has stayed virtually unchanged ...
The world’s most powerful laser weapon — blasts a car from a mile away!
A 30KW high-power laser was demonstrated by Lockheed Martin after it was used to disable a vehicle more than a ...
The world’s most powerful laser could put the Death Star to shame
Japan just powered up the world's most powerful laser, a monster that shines a 2-petawatt pulse of light. The pulse ...
ISS astronauts could use laser cannon to blast off hazardous space junk
Astronauts onboard the ISS may soon get a new "toy" - a space laser cannon to blast off space debris ...
Rice grain-sized laser helps build the first quantum computer
Princeton researchers demonstrated a novel type of microwave laser - called a maser - so small that's the size of ...
Laser weapon demonstrated aboard US Navy ship – the weapons of the future
Shells and bullets have evolved significantly in the past couple hundred years since they were first used, but in principle ...
Infrared light can be detected by the human eye after all
The human retina can only detect incident light that falls in waves 400 to 720 nanometers long, so we can't see ...
New camera for ultrafast photography shoots one hundred billion frames per second
High speed photography is no longer a new thing... but then again, it depends what you mean by high speed ...
Coldest atom cloud in the world chills other matter close to absolute zero
For the first time, researchers at the University of Basel used an ultracool atomic gas to cool a very thin ...
Stunning paper art drawn with lasers
Eric Standley is an usual artist who makes some of the most dazzling Islamic and Gothic inspired art out there. However, hile ...
Sewing an invisible cloak with lasers
A newly developed technique by researchers at University of Cambridge might revolutionize metamaterial manufacturing and help make a complete invisibility ...
High power laser hallows atom from the inside out
An international team of physicists have used one of the world's most powerful lasers to create an unusual kind of ...
First working phaser built: a laser that shoots sound
A false-color scanning electron microscope image of the etched circuit that produces the sound laser. (c) Imran Mahboob Trekkies have ...
Seeing a reaction in real-time using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, once home to the longest particle accelerator for ...
Zapping lasers: German military 50 kW laser can shoot down mortar projectiles from 2km away
We're all familiar with laser weapons from SciFi movies and novels, but how far away is laser warfare from reality? ...
Coldest antimatter yet might help scientists probe its secrets
A novel technique for cooling antimatter down to the point where it might become almost stationary might provide scientists with ...
Smallest laser is so tiny you can’t see it with the naked eye
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed what's considered ...
Free-electron X-ray laser reveals protein architecture at unprecedented detail
Curious enough, one hundred years after renowned physicist Max von Lauefirst used X-ray diffraction to unravel the intricate atomic architecture of molecules, ...
First single RGB laser devised using quantum dots
Most digital devices today, like displays or blue-ray disks, use lasers which emit the colors red, green and blue, which ...
World’s most powerful X-ray laser heats matter at 2 million degrees
Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser fired upon a neon gas capsule ...
Scientists cool semiconductor with laser light
By harnessing the science of both quantum and nano physics, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have come up with ...
The REAL Iron Man laser glove looks dangerous
Anyone scarcely into Iron Man will tell you they wouldn't want anything more for Christmas than a bone melting ray ...
NASA studies laser to remove space junk
Junk is not only limited to our planet, we have a problem with space pollution as well. In 1978, a ...
Meet the world’s most powerful X-Ray laser
The first experiments with this laser (Linac Coherent Light Source) have been given the green light at the Department of ...
Scientists heat matter to hotter than surface of the Sun
Think about the hottest thing that comes to your mind; probably, 90% of people would answer the Sun. But ...
Laser beam believed to be the most intense
A laser is an electronic-optical device that produces coherent light radiation. It's very useful in various fields, such as medicine ...
