As a surveyor working in the site/civil consulting world, I learned early on that the staying ahead of the technology curve can provide a clear market advantage, so I have been progressive in my ...

Within a year or two, the U.S. military could field a portable, laser backpack device that will provide a three-dimensional (3-D) map of buildings. The reconnoitering pack could be used by ...

How safe would you feel, going back into a multi-story building that had just been through an earthquake? A new sensor system could allay your fears, as it optically measures how much a building has ...

China is building a mega-laser that's so powerful it could literally tear space apart. Physicists in Shanghai are constructing what they call a 'Station of Extreme Light', which could be operational ...

As [Brad] over at the LVL1 hackerspace watched his friend build a Laser tag/tazer mashup for Makerfaire Detroit 2012, he noticed these new laser tag guns were really cool. These Light Strike guns have ...

WASHINGTON -- Producing a laser with a power of a terawatt -- equal to one trillion watts -- used to be impressive, but now the forefront of optical research power is measured in 1 quadrillion-watt ...

Even the smallest of deformations in structures such as buildings or bridges can lead to cracks, so the sooner that they're noticed, the better. A new laser-based system is designed to do just that, ...

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There are rumors the Russians are restarting their laser tank program. Near the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union began experimenting with the idea of fielding a ...

The U.S. Army is issuing the call to develop an ultrashort pulse laser. The laser is designed to unleash “enormous power” in a fraction of the time a regular laser weapon lasts. The weapon should have ...