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Israel’s laser beam defence system: High-energy weapon that destroys aerial threats mid-air

The Times of India 18 Mar 2026
Maintaining a steady beam on fast-moving targets is difficult, and environmental factors can reduce effectiveness.Still, as drone warfare expands, from Ukraine to the Middle East, laser systems like ...
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Earth Just Received Laser-Beamed Cat Video From 19 Million Miles Away

IFL Science 18 Mar 2026
The first streaming video carried by laser beam from beyond the Moon has been received from 31 million kilometers (19 million miles) away.
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New photonic chip fires thousands of laser beams into free space for quantum control

Interesting Engineering 12 Mar 2026
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partner institutions have developed a photonic chip that can project thousands of controlled laser beams directly into free space ... These qubits require precisely controlled laser beams.
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Fuel free interplanetary travel? ‘Photonic crystal’ sail could help laser beams push spacecraft

Interesting Engineering 08 Mar 2026
So, if you shine a powerful laser at a reflective sail, the photons bounce off and push the sail forward ... If combined with a powerful directed laser, this could result in the sail melting over time.
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Laser, beam lights banned within 15km radius of Sambhajinagar airport for 60 days

The Times of India 13 Feb 2026
... airport.According to the order, powerful laser and beam lights aimed skywards can disrupt aircraft operations by distracting pilots and impairing their vision, especially during take-off and landing.
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High-powered laser beams could keep drones flying indefinitely

New Atlas 06 Feb 2026
It claims its powerful non-visible laser beam can transmit power "over kilometers." ... It's then sent through the air using beam shaping optics as a non-visible laser beam to the drone's onboard receiver.
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China’s first-of-a-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam

South China Morning Post 02 Feb 2026
The shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal has been realised in a laboratory ...
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Laser beam flips a ferromagnet's polarity without heating the material

Phys Dot Org 28 Jan 2026
Researchers at the University of Basel and the ETH in Zurich have succeeded in changing the polarity of a special ferromagnet using a laser beam ... the reflection of a second, much weaker laser beam.
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Laser beams and paint guns

Islington Tribune 17 Jan 2026
Red Reflex followed ... This room was a crowd pleaser, with dry ice and rows of laser beams creating an assault course. Increasingly tricky routes are presented as you avoid the beams like jewel thieves in a museum ... than a full-on emulsion eruption ... ....
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Helldivers 2 players vote on which planet to fire our shiny new laser beam at, ...

Games Radar 17 Jan 2026
Last week, the government of Super Earth announced that it was working to convert the Democracy Space Station into a "macro-scale laser, capable of generating a high-yield beam optimized for mass Freedom dispensation."
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Space solar power stations could accidentally fry nearby satellites with laser beams

Interesting Engineering 14 Jan 2026
With several US startups eyeing orbital demonstrations of their technologies, a new study warns that powerful lasers beaming energy down to Earth could harm other satellites in Earth’s increasingly congested orbit.
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Quantum interferometer boosts sensitivity to tiny laser beam shifts

SpaceDaily 12 Jan 2026
... method that can register extremely small tilts and displacements of a laser beam.
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