Add charm to your tree with laser-cut elf ornaments. Follow this easy tutorial to craft holiday decorations or thoughtful gifts. If you're looking to add a little handmade charm to your tree this year ...

OctopusEffects, #Blender Creates a laser beam from a point projected onto a surface. Create a light effect where the surface ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

As the question of how to make a laser fusion reactor practical rises, scientists at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have come up with a way for fusion lasers to ...

Fair warning: watching this hybrid manufacturing method for gear teeth may result in an uncontrollable urge to buy a fiber laser cutter. Hackaday isn’t responsible for any financial difficulties that ...

We’ve covered a scanning laser project by Ben Make’s Everything last year, and now he’s back with a significant update. [Ben]’s latest project now offers a higher resolution and RGB lasers. A couple ...

Ending years of speculation, Amazon has acknowledged that its Project Kuiper satellites will use laser-based links to communicate with each other, and says the system has already been successfully ...

Physicists have proposed a new type of laser that could emit powerful bursts of neutrinos instead of light 1. This could enable ‘tabletop’ studies of neutrinos — elementary particles that have no ...

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, known as SLAC, operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy, has announced “first light” for a giant laser project to make molecular-level ...