Israel expects its “Iron Beam” laser defense system to be operational within one year, saying it will bring “a new era of warfare” as it engages in a war of drones and missiles with Iran ...

A lidar scanner uses laser pulses to map the features of land below. The technology has been increasingly used in archaeology — in the past few years it has helped uncover a lost Maya city ...

Researchers have uncovered the scale of two ancient cities buried high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. The cities were thought to be there, but their extent was unknown, so the team used drone ...

Any advance in laser tech has huge potential across a whole range of fields – from space comms to fusion power – and we just got a big one: ultra-short laser pulses of up to 100 megawatts, the most ...

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the normal cycle of life. The Taino of the Greater Antilles and the Kalinago, or ...

This feat was part of the culmination of the first Phase of NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment. Psyche is carrying a laser transceiver tuned to a specific frequency of infrared light, ...

A newly developed air defense laser has 100 percent of incoming threats during a new trial, the U.K. government has said, as several militaries forge ahead with efforts to get lasers operational ...

Credit: Jason Wells/Shutterstock. The UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) has completed live-fire trials of a new laser self-protection system designed to be mounted on a variety of RAF aircraft, including the ...

If scientists can crack the code using lasers, it could lead to a virtually limitless supply of safe, sustainable energy without any carbon emissions. This month, construction crews are breaking ...