803 Results From "laser"

China is reportedly working on a "laser attack platform" for cannons that can be attached to its military's planes, the South China Morning Post reports.
Future Society

China Wants to Mount Laser Cannons on Its Fighter Jets

By Victor Tangermann

If I were dropped in Jezero crater with a pressurized spacesuit, could I defeat NASA’s mighty Perseverance rover in mortal combat? 
Mars

People Want NASA’s Mars Rover to Fight the Chinese Mars Rover

By Tony Ho Tran

The U.S. Army is developing a series of Robotic Combat Vehicles armed with powerful weapons that can semi-autonomously navigate a battlefield.
Robotics

US Army Readies Robot Tanks Fitted With Chainguns, Missile Launchers

By Dan Robitzski

New optical tweezers can pick up objects as small as ten nanometers, potentially improving the way biologists investigate molecules.
Biology

Engineers Build Tweezers So Tiny They Can Pick Up Individual Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has built a system that could make landing on the Moon or Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to test it out on an upcoming mission.
Moon

NASA Has Figured Out a New Way to Safely Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla patented a system that would replace good old fashioned windshield wipers with actual laser beams that zap away debris.
Tesla

Tesla Wants to Replace Windshield Wipers With Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

During a test, a powerful laser weapon system on board the amphibious US Navy ship USS Portland "successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle."
Energy

Watch the US Military Kill an Aircraft With an Energy Weapon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists built a low-cost system that can be mounted on a standard camera and make infrared light visible to the human eye.
Physics

Scientists Found a Way to Make Infrared Light Visible to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

By Dan Robitzski

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.
Military

The US Military Developed AR Goggles For Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

The 14 Least and Most Effective Kinds of Masks: Ranked! By Scientists!
Developments

The 14 Least and Most Effective Kinds of Masks: Ranked! By Scientists!

By Victor Tangermann

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysics professor Avi Loeb called on the scientific community to search not just for mysterious radio signals, but for alien probes as well.
Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomer Says We Should Hunt for Alien Probes

By Victor Tangermann

Cornell scientists developed a robot so tiny that it's invisible to the human eye — and they say it could someday hunt for cancer inside your body.
Robotics

This Robot Is So Tiny You Could Fit Ten of Them on a Single Period

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk has announced that the mysterious computer-brain interface startup Neuralink he co-founded is about to update us on its progress on August 28.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Teases Major Neuralink Reveal

By Victor Tangermann

Chilean protestors banded together to disable a hovering police drone using hundreds of consumer laser pointers in a dazzling concerted effort.
Future Society

Watch Protestors Kill a Drone Using Hundreds of Laser Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

According to Musk, brain computer interfaces in the future will allow us to ditch the headphones and beam music straight to our brains.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Will Stream Music Straight Into Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Synchron CEO and founder Thomas Oxley explains how his neural implant startup beat Neuralink in the race to achieve FDA approval.
Neuroscience and Brain

How a Small Neurotech Startup Beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Human Studies

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have found a way to biosynthesize tiny gold nanoparticles directly within cancer cells to aid in x-ray imaging — and to destroy them.
Cancer

Doctors Say They Can Kill Tumors by Growing Gold Inside Them

By Victor Tangermann

A team researchers at Facebook have created a virtual reality headset that's not much larger than a (bulky) pair of sunglasses.
Virtual Reality

Facebook Built a VR Headset the Size of a Pair of Large Sunglasses

By Victor Tangermann

Latest

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo