A lidar scanner uses laser pulses to map the features of land below. The technology has been increasingly used in archaeology — in the past few years it has helped uncover a lost Maya city ...

During the live-fire trial, the air protection system laser weapon was able to defeat 100 percent of infrared heat-seeking missiles being fired simultaneously, according to the UK government.

Miami International Airport (MIA) is getting a new security system, featuring infrared cameras and laser walls, that promises to identify and respond to airport perimeter breaches in real time.

“Twin telescopes aboard each spacecraft will both transmit and receive infrared laser beams to track their companions, and NASA is supplying all six of them to the LISA mission,” said Ryan DeRosa, a ...

The laser is a joint project shared by the U.K. Defense Ministry's science and technology agency and the U.K. branches of defense manufacturers Leonardo and Thales. Several "senior military officers ...

Any advance in laser tech has huge potential across a whole range of fields – from space comms to fusion power – and we just got a big one: ultra-short laser pulses of up to 100 megawatts, the most ...

Psyche is carrying a laser transceiver tuned to a specific frequency of infrared light, which can also be transmitted and received by two ground stations based in California. The infrared frequency ...

In a statement, officials said the laser downed 100% of its targets at the Vidsel Test Range in Sweden while facing "a range of infrared heat-seeking missiles being fired simultaneously." ...

Long before endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox became the fastest woman to ever ride around the world, men at the bar she worked in used to tell her she was lying about her achievements. “That ...

the Miysis DIRCM directs a modulated laser beam (using a Dstl jamming waveform) onto the seeker of the approaching MANPADS so as to break target lock. The latest trials at Vidsel saw the Elix-IR ...