Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Army, have developed a ...

Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space. Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the ...

A team of researchers from University of California and the University of Kassel in Germany has developed a way to halt the ultra-fast melting of silicon using well-timed lasers. This new technique ...

As military powers race to develop next-generation weapons, the US Navy's Songbo laser system promises a future where drones and missiles can be destroyed at the speed of light. We explore how this ...

The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and ...

The DragonFire laser directed-energy weapon achieved the U.K.’s first high-power firing of the weapon type against an aerial target. (Photo provided/British Defence Ministry) (THE CONVERSATION) ...

The only real laser weapon that saw service during the 20th century was a low-power laser used by the Royal Navy during the 1982 Falklands War to temporarily dazzle and distract enemy pilots. Not that ...

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LightSolver, a pioneer in laser-based computing for physics-intensive workloads, today announced a strategic financial partnership with Boeing ...

In the Middle East, cheap drones and massed missile attacks are testing the sophisticated air defense systems of the region's wealthiest powers. It's sparked a race to deploy new experimental ...

Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the skies or skimming across the waves are motivating militaries to develop and deploy laser weapons as an alternative to costly and potentially ...