A guided-missile destroyer at sea doesn’t need a missile to show it is ready. In a Navy-run drill, a bright beam came off the ...

Adaptive laser beam shaping with a deformable mirror enables efficient energy and material usage in laser welding and ...

SEATTLE — An art installation featuring 30 laser beams in primary colors will shine from the top of the Space Needle Friday night. The show, called GuideStar, draws inspiration from astronomical guide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The IDF on Wednesday announced that its Iron Beam laser defense system has shot down dozens of aerial threats during the war May ...

Yongcui Mi has developed a new technology that enables real-time shaping and control of laser beams for laser welding and directed energy deposition using laser and wire. The innovation is based on ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

Laser beam interactions with plasma are at the forefront of contemporary high-energy density physics, offering transformative potential in areas ranging from inertial confinement fusion to advanced ...

A fabricator that needs to weld thick plate in as few passes as possible often will turn to submerged arc welding (SAW), a legacy process that has dominated heavy fabrication for decades. Variations ...

A triangle of three spacecraft shooting laser beams at each other in space sounds like something from a science fiction movie. However, the European Space Agency revealed this will become a reality by ...