In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

California machine shop quadrupled output by switching from manual TIG to robotic laser welding, eliminating skilled labor ...

The University of Sheffield Rail Group hosted industry partners at British Steel on 7th November to see laser-clad field-demonstrations, which showed how additive manufacturing can repair railway ...

Israel has deployed its Iron Beam laser air defense system, using a 100-kW directed-energy weapon to intercept drones and ...

Deep in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, a working industrial pit has given way to something far older and stranger than modern ...

Chinese scientists have reduced the production time of dielectric energy storage capacitor components to just one second, enabling scalable, temperature-stable storage for hybrid electric vehicles, ...

Broken Hill City Council says the Slag Street sign has been stolen "numerous" times over the years. Resident Sid Siddall worries that emergency services will be unable to find his address the next ...

U.S. Steel’s notoriously outdated Edgar Thomson Works handles the molten substance left behind by smelting iron ore the same way it did 150 years ago: by dumping it into slag pits. They’re as low-tech ...

A worker loads a portable thermal battery onto a truck. The battery is charged using the waste heat from a biofuel plant and transported to an apartment block, where it provides heating for water.

Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...