803 Results From "laser"

If any humans are alive in 5 billion years, they'll see the dying Sun engulf the Earth. Space Engineer Matteo Ceriotti suggests some possible escape plans.
Off-World

Space Engineer: We Could Move Earth’s Orbit to Escape a Dying Sun

By Dan Robitzski

Leaders from 25 nations, including China, Russia, and the U.S. are currently meeting in Geneva to draft laws that would prevent a space arms race.
Off-World

25 Governments Are Meeting Right Now to Prevent a Space Arms Race

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is working on a system in which a ground-based laser shoots a military drone mid-flight in order to power it.
Drones

Shoot This Military Drone With a Laser, and It’ll Stay in the Air Indefinitely

By Kristin Houser

A city in South Korea installed flickering lights and laser beams at its crosswalks to grab the attention of "smartphone zombies."
Future Society

South Korean App Warns Smartphone Addicts Not to Step Into Traffic

By Victor Tangermann

The Wall Street Journal reports that the CIA developed a top-secret missile that can assassinate a single terrorist, and minimizes civilian casualties.
Robots and Machines

CIA’s Bizarre “Ninja Bomb” Crushes Enemies Like a “Speeding Anvil”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at LIGO just observed the gravitational waves given off by a black hole as it consumed a neutron star for the first time.
Black Holes

Scientists Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

Weapons makers ranging from Boeing to Lockheed Martin are working on new anti-drone technologies — everything from laser cannons to heat-seeking missiles.
Drones

Military Contractors Are Churning out New Anti-Drone Weapons

By Jon Christian

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash
Moon

Incredibly Tough NASA Sensor May Have Survived Moon Lander Crash

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is sending a pair of "robotic bees" to the ISS — a project the space agency is positioning as one of the most advanced experiments in space robotics.
NASA

NASA Is Sending Cute “Robotic Bees” to the Space Station

By Jon Christian

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones
Drones

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. military has released this year's Missile Defense Review that includes plans for space-based missile sensors, and interceptors.
Off-World

The U.S. Wants to Put Ballistic Missile Defense Systems in Space

By Victor Tangermann

A newly demoed pair of autonomous firefighting robots are designed to battle particularly hazardous fires, such as those at petrochemical plants.
Self-Driving Vehicles

These Autonomous Bots Battle Blazes Too Dangerous for Firefighters

By Kristin Houser

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.
Nuclear Fusion

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

By Jacob Banas

Instead of cutting a person open, future surgeries could be done by shocking cartilage until it's malleable and reshaping it with molds.
Biology

New Technique Alters Your Facial Appearance Without Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

New research upends the common assumption that sound waves are weightless. It turns out they carry a trace amount of mass in the form of phonons.
Physics

Sound May Be Carried by Tiny Particles With Negative Gravity

By Dan Robitzski

Russian media confirmed yesterday that the Russian Navy is developing a "new non-lethal light-based optical interference system" that could blind enemies.
Military

Russian Military Confirms New Weapon Causes “Hallucinatory Symptoms”

By Victor Tangermann

A small, levitating glass bead the size of a virus might be the long-awaited key to directly observing dark matter, if new research is to be believed.
Physics

A Floating, Virus-Sized Bead Could Help Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A new quantum physics experiment demonstrates that objective reality may not exist. Two scientists can make irreconcilable measurements of an event.
Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests That Reality Isn’t Objective

By Dan Robitzski

A new "acoustic metamaterial" that blocks sound by reflecting waves back to their source could make the future a far quieter place.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create Material That Blocks Sound, but Not Air or Light

By Kristin Houser

Russia Wants to Vaporize Space Junk With a Laser. There Is No Way This Will Go Wrong.
Science & Energy

Russia Wants to Vaporize Space Junk With a Laser. There Is No Way This Will Go Wrong.

By Dan Robitzski

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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