Call it a ray gun, death ray, beam gun, blaster, or phaser, it has been a science fiction staple for most of the 20th century. And given technological advances, this fantastical weapon is fast ...

X-ray crystallography, like mass spectroscopy and nuclear spectroscopy, is an extremely useful material characterization ...

The US military has given the first public display of what it says is a revolutionary heat-ray weapon to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds. Called the Active Denial System, it projects an ...

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The age of the ray gun is almost upon us after the US Navy took delivery of a near-operational high-energy tactical laser weapon called the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A deformable X-ray mirror made from a single-crystal lithium niobate wafer enables beam size adjustment by over 3,400 times, surpassing traditional two-part mirrors.