The cost per laser blast is usually estimated at about a dollar a shot. Right now, forces are largely limited to their current arsenal. This means the U.S. and its allies are often forced to use ...

Laser Devices Inc. (LDI) offes its MIL-SPEC Bright Light Aiming System Tactical 2 (BLAST 2). BLAST 2 is LDI's second generation of weapon mounted tactical lights that also include a compact ...

and it unleashed the most powerful laser blast in history -- besting a record set mere months earlier. The National Ignition Facility (NIF)-- a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National ...

Scientists have generated the world's fastest laser pulse, a beam that shoots for 67 attoseconds, or 0.000000000000000067 seconds. The feat improves on the previous record of 80 attoseconds, set ...

This is the first time the researchers have made microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by the laser. Also, the footage show for the first time an X-ray blast making shock waves that ...

The ZEUS laser, tucked away (as much as a giant laser can be) at the University of Michigan, just cranked out a pulse that makes it the most powerful laser beam in the country. ZEUS’ peak power ...

Our favorite headline of the day has to be Space.com's "Pew! Pew! Pew! NASA's Curiosity Rover Zaps Mars Rock With Laser." As the story says: "A NASA rover has fired the first laser gun on Mars to ...