For a while missiles looked like potential prey. They have thin skins and are packed with fuel and explosives. Merely damaging the shell of a supersonic missile can create drag, causing it to tumble ...

Chinese scientists have claimed to create the world’s largest barium gallium selenide (BGSe) crystal to enhance long-range ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch ...

Chinese researchers overcome decades-long challenge to build a laser that operates across 100-degree Celsius temperature swings.

Jerusalem Post / Israel News / Defense News Iron Beam laser’s speed could mute sirens, end most runs to bomb shelters According to Rafael, a major advantage of its lasers is that they can shoot ...

The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute beast.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A laser named after the most powerful god in ancient Greece is living up to its name.

The first net-positive shot, for example, required 300 megajoules to power the laser system alone. But they are continued proof that controlled nuclear fusion is more than hypothetical.

One of DARPA’s concerns is that Russia has allegedly developed a nuclear space-based, anti-satellite weapon that may be capable of blinding hundreds of satellites.

Ostracized teenager, Billy, finds a laser gun and terrorizes the town with it as he mutates with each blast. Now it's a race against time before the aliens return to claim the weapon... and his life.

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature. The ...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed “Helios” — from one of its warships.