A mystery lies at the heart of the second book in the “Big Joe Carson” trilogy from longtime Chico resident David Dirks, now Brentwood-based. In the first, “Particle Beam (For Such A Time),” by Dirks ...

Sometimes life can be stranger than fiction, and the tale of Nikola Tesla's supposed death ray is one of those instances. Let's begin at the end ... with Tesla's death. On Jan. 7, 1943, the famous ...

The US Navy successfully tested its new laser weapon mounted on a warship. The dramatic photo above depicts the High Energy ...

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Israel's Ministry of Defence have announced the "full operational maturity" of its 100kW Iron Beam laser weapon system.

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard candle" in particle physics. This isn't to be confused with Type 1a supernovas ...

One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he ...

A low-cost, high-power laser-based system aimed at destroying incoming missiles has successfully completed testing and will be ready for operational use by the military later this year, Israel's ...