The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operates a laser with an open beam path at its DLR Institute of Technical Physics in Lampoldshausen. Researchers at this ...
Laser-guided lightning A laser beam shoots into the sky alongside the 124 m-high telecommunications tower on Säntis mountain in the Swiss Alps. (Courtesy: TRUMPF/Martin Stollberg) Firing a laser beam ...
I don't know about you, but ever since I started covering the Large Hadron Collider and other large-scale particle accelerators for ExtremeTech, I've always morbidly wondered: What would happen if a ...