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Rise of military lasers in 2025: How directed weapons reshaped defense plans
Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...
Sometimes, after an especially demanding winter workout, panting with a pounding heart rate, it can be difficult to unlatch ...
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Laser plus atom cloud recreates quantum electronics
Physicists are now using a tightly controlled laser and a cloud of ultracold atoms to imitate the behavior of electrons in solids, effectively building a quantum version of electronics out of light ...
Drone swarms are changing warfare, air defense, and civilian aviation. Here’s how coordinated drones work, fight, and play ...
Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.
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Japan Just Installed a Massive Laser Weapon on Its Naval Test Ship
In parallel, Japan has built a heavy-truck demonstrator with a 10-kilowatt-class laser for stopping small drones. Mitsubishi ...
Tired of lost tape measures, dead batteries, and tool failures mid-project? See which tools are worth keeping in pairs for ...
New Year’s fireworks cause spikes in air pollution, toxic metals, water contamination & wildlife disruption. Alternatives ...
Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...
If you wear glasses or contacts, you probably know the feeling: you wake up, reach for your specs, and hope today isn’t another day of smudged lenses, misplaced ...
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World’s first ‘combat-ready’ 100kW Iron Beam laser that zaps drone for cents deployed
Israel has delivered its first operational high-power laser air-defense system to the military to counter drones at a ...
Russian scientists have created the country’s first ion-based quantum computer using a new type of quantum unit that works ...
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