Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

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

One day, we might want the World Wide Web to stretch across the galaxy, and NASA just took a major step in that direction —successfully beaming a laser ...

A U.S. warship, which is currently deployed in the Western Pacific Ocean, was pictured firing its laser at a drone target last week. Newsweek has contacted the Pentagon and the U.S. Navy for ...

But at their core, lasers are just concentrated beams of light ... truck's gas tank on fire, and even burn holes in people. Pointed at an artillery shell in flight, a laser can heat the shell ...

Knowledge of a laser beam's shape and output-power distribution is critical for optimizing laser performance. Neil Savage summarizes the latest beam-profiling products on the market. People using ...