803 Results From "laser"

Researchers have created an unsinkable metal by using lasers to etch an air-trapping pattern onto an aluminum structure's surface.
Science & Energy

Watch a Piece of Metal Refuse to Sink in Water

By Kristin Houser

Laser scientists say a machine learning breakthrough has smashed the standing record for a fusion power yield using machine learning.
Energy

Laser Scientists Just Tripled Their Fusion Power Yield

By Jon Christian

A Redditor designed a hat to thwart facial recognition by literally putting on a picture of Chinese President XI Jinping's face which blocks their face.
Future Society

This Ingenious Hat Blocks Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

A newly released Pentagon report details the laser weapons likely in development by China and Russia to attack U.S. satellites.
Off-World

Pentagon Warns That Enemies Could Shoot US Satellites With Lasers

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Air Force wants to equip its fighter jets with defensive laser weapons as soon as the early 2020s.
Robots and Machines

The Air Force Wants to Arm Fighter Jets With Laser Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

A Navy research facility just put out a call for contractors who can totally incinerate 4,000 pounds of hard drives from a laser research program.
Military

The Navy Is Incinerating Hard Drives About Laser Weapon Research

By Dan Robitzski

Heliogen's new solar oven can focus sunlight and reach temperatures high enough to manufacture steel and cement without any fossil fuels.
Solar Power

Bill Gates-Funded Startup Unveils “Holy Grail” of Solar Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team from MIT found a way to use a laser to transmit audio across a room — without anyone between the person and source of the laser hearing it.
Science & Energy

MIT Used a Laser to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person’s Ear

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Space Development Agency is seeking over $11 billion to deploy up to 1,200 low-orbit satellites to monitor next-generation hypersonic missiles.
Space

The US Plans to Track Hypersonic Missiles With 1,200 Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Engineer Jau Tang has plans to clean up our act. His research shows how we could do away with fossil fuels, instead powering vehicles with plasma and air.
Advanced Transport

This Scientist Says He’s Built a Jet Engine That Turns Electricity Directly Into Thrust

By Dan Robitzski

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.
Science & Energy

Physicists Finally Find a Way to Tell Certain Black Holes Apart

By Kristin Houser

Russian media released a video of Peresvet today. Deployment of the laser turret seems to be a response to Pompeo's threat to tear up an arms treaty.
Robots and Machines

Russia’s Latest Weapon: A Laser Cannon

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force's restraint on revealing the X-37B program's true ambitions hasn't stopped people from speculating over the last nine years.
Space

What Was the Air Force’s Secret Space Plane Doing in Orbit for 779 Days?

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Hong Kong are spraying crowds of protestors with canons full of blue dye to make them easy to identify for later arrest.
Future Society

Police Are Spraying Protesters With Dye to Round Them up Later

By Kristin Houser

Using a combination of CRISPR and antiretroviral therapy, researcher eliminated the HIV virus from the genomes of mice engineered to produce human T cells.
Health & Medicine

CRISPR Helps Scientists Cure HIV In Living Animals For First Time

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk's Neuralink announced that it's almost ready for human experimentation. People on Twitter want to offer up their brains.
Elon Musk

People Are Begging Elon Musk to Drill Holes in Their Skulls

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have build what they claim is the world's smallest engine. And it's only the size of a single calcium ion.
Physics

The World’s Smallest Engine is the Same Size as a Single Ion

By Victor Tangermann

A future space war won't look like "Star Wars." Instead it'll be almost imperceptible on the planet's surface.
Future Society

This Is What a Space War Would Look Like, According to Experts

By Victor Tangermann

Radioactive dust from an ancient supernova was just found buried in Antarctica, helping scientists better understand what's outside our solar system.
Science & Energy

Radioactive Dust From an Ancient Supernova Is Buried in Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

Japan is putting nearly $1 billion into moonshot projects like cyborg tech, human hibernation, and recycling its industrial waste.
Future Society

Japan Pledges $900 Million to Cyborg, Human Hibernation Research

By Dan Robitzski

Latest

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo