(THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space. Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive ...

Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...

The USS Portland test-fires a laser weapon. The photo captured infrared light to make the beam visible. Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/Marine Corps via AP Nations around the world are rapidly developing ...

There are many different types of lasers—almost as many as there are applications for the same—but what ties them all together as a class is that they depend on the same physical effect: stimulated ...

Dr. Frank Bures For River Valley Media Group Nov 28, 2025 Nov 28, 2025 0 Dr. Frank Bures, a semi-retired dermatologist, has worked in Winona, La Crosse, Viroqua and Red Wing since 1978. He also plays ...

Forest thinning increases water supplies downstream while reducing wildfire risk, according to a study conducted by Salt River Project and Arizona State University. Land managers and scientists knew ...

Using intense X-rays, researchers captured a buckyball as it expanded, split and shed electrons under strong laser fields. Detailed scattering measurements showed how the molecule behaves at low, ...

On the very smallest scale, the world is mysterious and counter-intuitive. At this level, things simply don't work the way you'd expect them to, and quantum mechanics is our best attempt at applying a ...

I get it, laser treatments like Clear + Brilliant, Halo, and Fraxel can be daunting. They’re expensive, uncomfortable, associated with downtime, and often only provided at a dermatologist’s office or ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Iain Boyd, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Nations around the world ...

The DragonFire laser directed-energy weapon achieved the U.K.’s first high-power firing of the weapon type against an aerial target. (Photo provided/British Defence Ministry) (THE CONVERSATION) ...