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Lasers are not only for cutting metal or scanning groceries. They can also carry usable electricity across open air without a single wire. A U.S. team sent electrical power as laser light across about 5.3 miles and turned it back into electricity at the far end. They described 800 watts delivered during a 30 second burst, along with …

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world’s largest X-ray laser. Meet ice XXI, a bizarre phase that forms at room temperature, under extreme pressure. The solidified water we’re most familiar with here on Earth is technically known as ice I, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg – for instance, aliens on …

Japan uses laser drones to scare birds from farms and cut avian flu risk  TechSpot Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens — drones are hoped to prevent the spread of avian flu  Tom’s Hardware Japan to use laser drones to protect farms from wild animals and birds  Mezha.Media NTT launches drone with lasers for wildlife damage control  Telecompaper Source link

NASA’s Psyche has set a new benchmark for space communications. In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of 494 million kilometers (307 million miles). That’s more than twice the average distance between Earth and Mars and more than 1,285 times the distance to the Moon. It’s a triumph for …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The X-37B spaceplane’s eighth mission launches on August 21, testing crucial technologies for the Space Force. 🔍 Laser communications experiments aim to enhance secure and efficient satellite operations in low-Earth orbit. 💡 A quantum inertial sensor will be tested as a potential alternative to GPS, offering resistance to signal disruptions. 💰 Congress allocated $1 billion to …

A man accused of shining a laser pointer at presidential helicopter Marine One with President Trump aboard was arrested on federal charges Monday. Jacob Samuel Winkler, 33, of Washington, D.C., is charged with aiming the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft, a felony punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years. Online court records don’t list an …

Man Who Shined a Laser at Marine One With Trump Aboard Is Arrested, U.S. Says  The New York Times Man arrested for allegedly pointing laser at Marine One helicopter carrying President Trump near White House  Fox News Man charged with shining laser pointer at Marine One with Trump aboard  CBS News Man charged with aiming laser pointer at Trump’s helicopter  NBC News Man charged …

The Secret Service arrested a man on suspicion of shining a laser pointer at Marine One as the presidential helicopter was departing the White House with President Donald Trump on board, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday. The incident happened Saturday evening, after a uniformed Secret Service officer, Diego Santiago, saw a shirtless man “talking to himself and being …

Tucked away in a lab near Paris, scientists at the Apollon facility have quietly secured a world record: the most powerful laser ever fired on Earth. Operating at a staggering 10 petawatts, Apollon has set a benchmark that global competitors, including the United States, are scrambling to catch up with. Backed by the École Polytechnique, the National Centre for Scientific …

MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino ‘laser,’ which could help us probe the mysteries of the Universe. Neutrinos are the most abundant particles that have mass, but in a cruel irony, they’re extremely elusive, earning them the term ‘ghost particle’. Although there are trillions of them zipping through your body at any …