Laser

Green Bank Telescope

How to hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence

Technology

Researchers have enlisted some of the world’s largest telescopes to search for extraterrestrial life. But what exactly are they looking for?

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational space junk removal system. Just maybe not this exact one.

Astronauts could soon be blasting space junk with lasers

Science
The Orion capsule

When NASA’s newest spaceship takes off Thursday, it’ll be back to the future

Global Scan
US Navy officers with the laser weapon on the USS Ponce.

Is that a US Navy ship or a Star Destroyer?

Technology

How do you capture a drug kingpin without firing a shot?

Global Scan

High-technology drones and surveillance: How the US tracks terrorists

Environment

The United States employed state-of-the-art technology to hunt down Osama Bin Laden that gives a view into the state of the modern military.

The World

What?! Teleportation does exist?

Environment

Scientists have teleported information between two atoms. Before you start singing, “Beam me up, Scotty,” listen to The Takeaway’s favorite physicist Brian Greene talk teleportation.