A laser-wielding lout recklessly targeted a search and rescue helicopter as it assisted crews in the iconic Highland glen ...

Groppensteinschlucht is a spectacular gorge hike in Austria’s Hohe Tauern National Park. The trail leads along wooden walkways through narrow canyon walls and past rushing water. The highlight is the ...

However, unlike the Medusa-reclaimed inspired by Ovid and expanded by Gray, Linda loses us by murdering innocents. Thus, she ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partner institutions have developed a photonic ...

High-energy lasers can burn drones in the sky like a blowtorch. But they can be stymied by weather, and making them at scale will be a challenge.

As conflict escalates following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory strikes, reports have emerged that Israel may have used laser weapons to shoot down rockets fired ...

Israel uses ‘Iron Beam' laser system for first time; Ukraine to help stop Iranian drones in exchange for truce with Russia.

For decades, directed-energy weapons hovered just beyond the horizon of practical warfare. Engineers promised them. Generals waited for them.

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The headlines lately have verged on science fiction. A few weeks ago, my colleague Simon Shuster reported that the Ukrainian military had unveiled a new anti-drone laser weapon called the Sunray. On ...

Researchers from MIT, Cambridge, Mass., and elsewhere have developed what they call “a new class of photonic devices that ...