Le nouveau système de défense laser britannique permet des tirs coûtant 10 livres sterling – soit l’équivalent d’une heure de chauffage.
- Professor at the School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
Operating the DragonFire laser system for ten seconds costs the equivalent of using a heater for an hour (less than £10 per shot).
The compact accelerators are 100 times smaller than traditional ones, and could easily fit inside hospitals and laboratories.
New research may help us to look for messages from alien civilisations.
It’s not easy – but we are moving in the right direction.
Laser technology has come a long way, but not when it comes to razors.
Ultra-high powered lasers are the best and even cheapest approach to uncovering the secrets of physics, but with uses closer to home too.
The most powerful laser ever built could help us produce a machine that can turn energy into matter.
An exotic plasma could help shed light on why the universe as we know it is made up of more matter than antimatter.
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