Posted on December 31, 2008What's Inside Darpa's $21 Million 'Liquid' Laser?
Things are really beginning to heat up in the field of laser weapons. The giant Airborne Laser is finally gearing up for real-life, missile-zapping tests. New solid-state lasers like Raytheon's Phalanx can already shoot down mortar rounds.
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Posted on December 31, 2008New laser discovery shines unexpected light on laser research
A research team led by Princeton University has discovered a new type of double-beam laser that is not explained by existing theories. The findings were most unexpected and have now proven the second laser beam is actually more powerful and more...
Posted on December 31, 2008Police Will Soon Be Using Lasers Instead of Tasers
The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance using beams of laser light or microwaves, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.
Posted on December 31, 2008IDF officer who had laser eye surgery is getting his wings
Capt. Yishai wouldn't take no for an answer.
Posted on December 31, 2008UC Davis will use lasers, sounds to scare birds
A program to discourage egrets and herons from nesting in the UC Davis campus's Shields Oak Grove will continue next year with a bit more flash.
Posted on December 31, 2008Semiconductor Lasers Generate Better Random Numbers
Random numbers -- numbers without any pattern -- are vital to many applications, such as computer simulations, statistics, and cryptography.
Posted on December 30, 2008Laser Guided Snow Plows
Laser-beam technology helps steer snowplows away from obstacles, saving local governments millions.
Posted on December 30, 2008Airborne Laser lets rip on first target
IMAGINE swarms of aircraft patrolling the skies, zapping missiles, aircraft or even satellites in low Earth orbit with invisible, ultrapowerful laser beams.
Posted on December 24, 2008Laser Pointer Controlled Robots that Fetch for Disabled
It took Norma Margeson a few minutes to learn to control the skinny metal robot. But instead of viewing it as a machine, she soon warmed up to it as a companion. Georgia artist Norma Margeson has embraced a robot prototype that can fetch household...
Posted on December 24, 2008Warfare : Fighting with Lasers
Like so much else in science fiction, the ray gun was invented by H.G. Wells. In the tentacles of Wells's Martians it was a weapon as unanswerable by earthlings as the Maxim gun in the hands of British troops was unanswerable by Africans.
Posted on December 24, 2008DARPA orders 'fridge-sized' laser energy cannon
American weaponry researchers have awarded a $21m contract for the design and development of a 150-kilowatt energy weapon, high-powered enough to blast missiles out of the sky yet light enough to be carried by a jet fighter.
Posted on December 11, 2008Laser Therapy May Improve Fertility
Low-level laser therapy appears to improve sperm motility parameters in a dose-dependent manner
Posted on December 11, 2008Military tanks fitted with lethal lasers? Apparently, that's no longer just a work of the imagination.
This little box can produce a lethal laser custom-built for war and according to this press release, the supposed laser is definitely no joke.
Posted on December 11, 2008A-10 Ground Attack Fighter successfully drops laser-guided bomb
Maj. Matthew Domsalla, flying an A-10C Thunderbolt II Nov. 5, makes the first ever drop of a Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition from an A-10.
Posted on December 11, 2008Lasers Mending Broken Hearts
A new scaffold approach developed by a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could one day be used to mend a broken heart.
