A multi-institutional team of physicists and engineers has developed a laser-based radiation detection system that operates from as far away as 10 meters and perhaps farther. Their research is ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Laser Photonics Corporation (LPC) (NASDAQ: LASE), a leading global developer of industrial laser systems for cleaning and other material processing applications, ...

The U.S. Navy is accelerating its push into directed energy weapons as drone threats ...

A chip-sized structure made of silicon nanopillars floated off a surface inside a Cornell University lab, pushed upward by ...

The U.S. government plans to develop a "super laser" that would simulate a small nuclear explosion — making conventional testing of nuclear warheads all but obsolete. If you think those laser light ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The schedule for long-planned flight testing of an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship with a laser directed energy weapon has slipped ...

In February, the U.S. Navy used an "all-electric, high-energy laser weapon" to destroy a target for the first time. The demonstration involved a red drone flying nearby the ground-based laser system, ...

Russia's Peresvet laser, a defense weapon, was tested by the Russian government on Wednesday, May 18. Officials stated that they used the thermal beam was used in Ukraine to see if it could actually ...