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11.26.09

Scientists Stun Nematode Worms With UV Phaser Straight Out Of Star Trek

By Stuart Fox Posted 11.19.2009 at 11:03 am 12 Comments

Star Trek introduced the world to a wide range of fictional technology, most of which, like beaming or warp drive, will likely remain fiction. However, a team of scientists from the University of Canada has taken the phaser, the show's famous stun-laser, out of the TV and into reality. Unfortunately, right now it only works on worms.

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Boeing's Latest Mobile Laser Weapon Tracks and Shoots Down Drone

By Clay Dillow Posted 11.18.2009 at 11:49 am 10 Comments

Laser Defense: Boeing's MATRIX high-energy directed weapon knocks a UAV out of the sky. U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory

Boeing has just announced it successfully tracked and shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle with a laser weapon. Actually, it shot down five UAVs at various ranges with the trailer-mounted Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX).

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