lasers
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Record-Breaking Laser Experiment Could Teach Us About The Cores Of Super-Earths
An enormous laser targeted for shutdown by proposed US budget cuts has just done some record-breaking science in order to understand the centres of faraway exoplanets that scientists call “super-Earths”.
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US Air Force Wants To Put Lasers On Fighter Jets By 2021, Bringing Us One Step Closer To Star Wars
The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $US26.3 million ($34.3 million) “for the design, development, and production of a high power fibre laser” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years. Sounds cool and certainly futuristic, but the jury’s still out on whether these weapons…
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Biggest X-Ray Laser Gun On Earth Opens In September
Even if you haven’t seen any James Bond films, you’re probably aware that the space laser battle depicted in Moonraker ranks among the stupidest scenes in the franchise’s history. But there’s a new laser gun in town that’s actually good and opening up for business. It is not a weapon.
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This Laser Printer Creates High-Res Colour Images Without A Single Drop Of Ink
Anyone with a colour printer knows that selling replacement ink cartridges is the quickest way to become a millionaire. But what if your printer never needed a single drop of ink to produce colour images at impossibly high resolutions? A new laser printer can already do that by etching microscopic patterns onto sheets of plastic.