(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

There are many different types of lasers—almost as many as there are applications for the same—but what ties them all together as a class is that they depend on the same physical effect: stimulated ...

They're in grocery store scanners, internet connections and car backup cameras. Whether you realize it or not, you interact with lasers every day. This light-based technology has helped build the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Iain Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the world ...

On the very smallest scale, the world is mysterious and counter-intuitive. At this level, things simply don't work the way you'd expect them to, and quantum mechanics is our best attempt at applying a ...

The goal is to speed up solar system communications. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A "data hunger" in space is driving the ...

Science fiction is an art form that asks its creators to imagine the distant future or the far outer reaches of space, and there are countless ways technology could evolve. When crafting an action ...