lasers
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Air Force Says It Has Successfully Shot Down Multiple Missiles Using A Laser Prototype
The U.S. Air Force announced on Friday that it had successfully used a ground-based surrogate for its laser weapons project, the Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD), to shoot down multiple air-launched missiles during a test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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How Plants Produce Oxygen Revealed By ‘Tour-de-Force’ Laser Measurement
An experiment using intense laser pulses has allowed scientists to watch plants produce oxygen from water part of photosynthesis in real time, according to a groundbreaking new paper.
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Nerf’s New Laser Tag Blasters Ditched The Darts, And I Don’t Miss Them
Nerf Alphapoint blasterPhoto: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo) Over-the-top Nerf battles are a fun and (mostly) painless way to determine who in the office has to buy the doughnuts this week. What’s not so fun is having to hunt down every last missing dart afterwards. Hasbro’s eliminated that hassle with its new Laser Ops Pro blasters; an…
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Science Has Peaked: We Can Now Shoot Lasers From Our Eyes
Imagine a sticker – a thin, flexible sticker – that can emit a beam of light, and be applied to contact lenses. Sign. Me. Up.