Lasers cut precisely and without contact—ideal for surgery. The problem is that in hard tissues such as bone, they are too slow and do not cut deep enough. Researchers at the University of Basel have ...

This story has been corrected. The U.S. Army has shelved its “Valkyrie” laser anti-missile system, shifting instead to the newer Joint Laser Weapon System, to be built with the Navy as part of the ...

MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory developed a laser-based communication system for NASA’s Artemis II mission that transmitted real-time, high-resolution images from space 100 times faster than previous methods ...