Updated - June 11, 2025 at 03:04 PM. There have been 27 incidents of laser beams directed at flights this year, sources at Chennai airport said.

The more powerful Iron Beam laser system, first unveiled in 2014, is designed to defeat rockets, artillery shells, mortars, cruise missiles, and UAVs at ranges of hundreds of meters to several ...

Around 8.15 p.m. on Sunday (May 25, 2025), as an Emirates B777-300 flight from Dubai was making its descent to the city airport, a green laser light struck the aircraft. The pilot immediately ...

Now there’s a laser vape. Meet Luminary’s The Beam, a handheld, pocket-sized vaporizer that uses a class-1 laser you can actually see to heat weed extracts. I thought for sure it was a gimmick.

SEATTLE — An art installation featuring 30 laser beams in primary colors will shine from the top of the Space Needle Friday night. The show, called GuideStar, draws inspiration from astronomical ...

Chinese Scientist Turns Tiny Drones Into Metal-Slicing Laser Beam Monsters As the tech progresses from research to potential deployment, the global community will have to consider the implications ...

Near-infrared laser with a wavelength of 1080 nanometres can cause blindness at a power of just five microwatts. The beam intensity that enters these soldiers’ eyes is 200 million times that ...

This case study focuses on an achromatic laser beam expander designed to magnify a 10mm input beam to a 50mm output beam, achieving 5X magnification at 1064nm and 5.1X at 532nm. Using a four-lens ...

To ask if a beam of light can make a shadow sounds like a sort of Zen paradox, but physicists have demonstrated the possibility. They used a laser beam to block another laser beam, albeit with ...

PUNE: Blinding laser beams and deafening music marked Dahi Handi celebrations in many areas of the city as several mandals violated the norms set by police and the pollution watchdog.

The UK has for the first time test-fired a laser beam from an army vehicle, destroying targets at the speed of light from more than a kilometre away, the defence secretary has revealed.