Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

Scientists in South Korea have achieved a major milestone in physics – and one pursued by researchers in the field for decades – by generating a record-breaking ultra-high intensity laser. The pulse ...

A low-cost, high-power laser-based system aimed at destroying incoming missiles has successfully completed testing and will ...

Earlier this summer, Israel made military history. Not with a missile, bomb or bullet — but with a beam of light. In a first for modern warfare, the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted ...

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems officially released the Iron Beam laser system this week that could change modern military ...

Israel's Ministry of Defence have announced the "full operational maturity" of its 100kW Iron Beam laser weapon system.

Physicists have built a tractor beam out of lasers that can both repel and attract objects across distances 100 times farther than previously possible. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Google's parent company, Alphabet, is still experimenting with hooking up remote towns to the Internet via frickin' laser beams. Today, Alphabet's moonshot "X Lab" shared an update on Project Taara, ...

Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed the formidable new weapon will be ready for use by the military later this year.