YouTuber and inventor Styropyro has built and tested a 250-watt handheld laser device. The system is roughly 50,000 times more powerful than standard commercial laser pointers, Styropyro claims in ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

John Nees (left) and laser engineer Paul Campbell (right) work in Target Area 1, where the first 2 petawatt user experiment will take place. ZEUS is now the most powerful laser in the US.

Built with the blue-laser diode of a dismantled Casio projector, the $200 Spyder III Pro Arctic is the world’s most powerful portable laser.

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).

A YouTuber has created what he claims is the world's strongest handheld laser, and it's powerful enough to cut through titanium.

The most powerful laser in the US recently produced 2 quadrillion watts of power The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with pulses lasting just 25 quintillionths ...

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has vaulted the United States to the forefront of high-intensity laser science. In its first official experiment, ZEUS ...

To Unlock Interstellar Travel, Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Powerful Laser Beam A lightsail built in one day could travel at 20 percent the speed of light. That shouldn’t be possible.

Researchers have built the USA's most powerful laser yet, so powerful that the only way to describe its power is to compare it to the world's annual consumption of electricity. The instrument ...

The handheld laser pointers you can buy at office supplies stores are legally required to be no powerful than 0.005-watts, and most fall well below that threshold so they’re relatively safe to ...