Despite what many expect, laser beams don’t remain as straight lines forever. All light diverges over a distance. This makes it hard to create a laser which can do damage from more than around a ...

Israel’s experimental air-defense system known as the Iron Beam uses laser technology to strike down drones and rockets, but military analysts say the device needs U.S. support to improve its ...

Scientists have created an ultrashort electron beam with five times more peak current than any other similar beam on Earth.

Besides, in another research, SLAC generated fast, bright proton beams by using only a water stream. This could give a massive boost to laser-plasma accelerator (LPA) technology for fusion research.

The second is to train the laser beam on that weak spot long enough to destroy or neutralize the target – a tricky challenge that's bound to get trickier as autonomous drones become quicker and ...

have described the Iron Beam as a "100kW class High Energy Laser Weapon System". Former Israeli prime minister Naftali ...

After that I grab the handheld gun and I get to work ... Either that, if it's not the pressure or the heat, the laser beam itself will vaporize the substance on top. So it's either or, right?

Victoria Beckham was targeted by a laser beam gun sight while rehearsing for the Brit Awards last year. She noticed the tiny red point of light - which usually heralds a bullet from a laser ...