There are three technologies that collectively line the threshold to The Future: Meal pills, flying cars, and killer laser beams. Two of those are unlikely to happen, one for reasons of taste and the ...

It’s being described as a breakthrough in air defense. For the first time, Israel’s high-power laser air defense system has been used in combat. The system’s maker, Rafael, and Israel’s Ministry of ...

The UK said it test-fired a laser beam weapon in a "groundbreaking" trial. The Ministry of Defence said it could neutralize targets for just $0.12 a shot. Countries are racing to develop weapons that ...

Israel’s “Iron Beam” cannot replace the “Iron Dome” kinetic missile defense system, but could be a valuable complement—and ...

As conflict escalates following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory strikes, reports have emerged that Israel may have used laser weapons to shoot down rockets fired ...

A mystery lies at the heart of the second book in the “Big Joe Carson” trilogy from longtime Chico resident David Dirks, now Brentwood-based. In the first, “Particle Beam (For Such A Time),” by Dirks ...

Andrew Tefft is a writer, reader, and gamer based in the United States. While he isn't starring off into space imagining what it would it would be like to look down at Earth from the ISS he is working ...

Japanese scientists are turning one of Gundam’s most iconic weapons into real-life technology that could help grow crops on ...