Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and…
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Lightning may look beautiful but every year it kills thousands of people, does huge amounts of damage to buildings and…
Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space…
Satellites are becoming increasingly important in our lives, as they help us meet a demand for more data, exchanged at…
At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain”, partly in response to new developments in technology. If it does declare space a war zone, NATO could start using space weapons that can destroy satellites or incoming enemy missiles. But what is this technology and how could it enable a war?
This week in Light Start, we explore some of the Marvel universe, check out some frikkin’ laserbeams, and witness an eldrich abomination made flesh.
There are lost cities all over the world. Some, like the remains of Mayan cities hidden beneath a thick canopy of rainforest…
You might be really pleased with the camera technology in your latest smartphone, which can recognise your face and take…
Last month we saw that the United States Navy would be deploying their first ship-based laser weapon, now is our…
Neuroscientists at the Howard Hughes Medical institute are looking at how the behaviour of one of nature’s simplest creatures (the…