Scientists and engineers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have reached a new milestone in isotope studies. They accelerated a high-power beam of uranium ions and delivered a record 10.4 ...

In a move that sounds like the wildest of science fiction, DARPA has announced its new Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program that plans to use lasers relayed by airborne platforms ...

Imagine satellites in space, perpetually powered by invisible beams of energy transmitted from Earth. This could soon be a reality with the emergence of wireless power beaming technology. This ...

A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced. The team has published ...

A Caltech team is celebrating the world's first space-based wireless power transmission, and the first time detectable levels of power have been beamed down to Earth. The Space Solar Power Project ...

PowerPhotonic, a developer and manufacturer of freeform, wafer-scale optics, based in Fife, UK, has this week been exhibiting and presenting an invited paper at SPIE Sensors and Imaging, in Amsterdam, ...

Stationary solar panels aren’t the only way we can harvest the raw power of the Sun. In a groundbreaking experiment conducted last year, researchers across the public and private sectors successfully ...

Military researchers are now proving that drones do not always need to carry their own fuel or batteries. In recent tests, aircraft have stayed aloft while being fed energy from the ground through ...