Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward ...

But focus too much on matters of geopolitics, and you can lose sight of something arguably even more profound: Laser guns are ...

Bruce Timm really wanted to use the villain Firefly in the original Batman: The Animated Series. Unfortunately, ...

For a company everyone thinks just converts track cars to road-legal ones, Lanzante is pioneering tech no other automaker has yet.

Xu Zao’s sci-fi feature is set in the distant future in a nearly deserted film studio. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The film, which mixes live action and animated sequences, is set in a ...

When we first heard the term “random laser,” we did a double-take. After all, most ordinary sources of light are random. One defining characteristic of a traditional laser is that it emits coherent ...

The Schiele Museum in Gastonia is offering laser light shows set to music starting Jan. 16. The museum has offered the shows for years, but this year includes three new musical options: Rush, The ...

Here’s a shower thought: if light and sound both travel as waves, can you make something that works similarly to a laser but uses sound instead of light? It turns out that the answer is “yes”! If you ...

Hisense has already put out a bunch of impressive projectors to suit different needs this year – and with the upcoming XR10, it appears to have pulled out all the stops to tempt laser home cinema ...

LK Metrology has announced the release of its L100NX laser scanner for use on coordinate measuring machines. Unlike its red light predecessor, the L100, the new scanner uses 450-nanometer blue light, ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of scientific and industrial applications. From creating stupendously accurate clocks ...

Yields highly stable optical references for quantum sensors, clocks, and on-chip devices. Passive emitters can significantly enhance the emission of light. A team of physicists from the University of ...