This article first appeared at AviationWeek.com. [Editor's note: You all know I've been a grudging supporter of the ABL, even if there's no money for it. All I'll say is it'll be exciting to see this ...

Ultra short laserpulses in the femtosecond-range give scientists a powerful new method of controlling chemical reactions. A team of researchers could now show that the fragmentation of carbohydrates ...

When the Pentagon first commissioned an anti-ballistic missile system (i.e. a Boeing 747 with a chemical laser attached to its nose), it spent roughly five years and $16 billion trying to perfect the ...

Physicists in Canada are the first to use laser light as a catalyst to control chemical reactions. The technique could prove to be an important tool for manipulating the properties of matter at the ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC laboratory have taken a "molecular movie" of a chemical reaction for the first time. The results of their research could give new insights into to how ...

Are high-power chemical lasers ready for the battlefield? Northrop Grumman thinks so - its new business unit will tackle the transition from lab to deployment. Oliver Graydon reports. At the beginning ...

Ordinarily chemists can’t mix together their reactants until the instant they’re ready for the reaction to proceed. But now researchers have developed a way to encapsulate highly reactive chemicals ...

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force successfully tested an air-to-ground laser on August 30. Now a video proves that it happened to those of us who weren't able to make it out to the White Sands Missile ...

A 32 kW combination of six industrial sources is preferable to deployment of a chemical laser, says Raytheon. Directed energy weapons should be based on combinations of high-power fiber lasers, and ...

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 ...