A powerful homemade proto-lightsaber is put to the ultimate test against a heavy bank vault in a dramatic engineering ...

It’s not just hot — it’s revolutionary. This build takes lightsaber tech to the next level with a 4000° plasma blade that actually retracts. Watch the sparks fly as engineering meets sci-fi in our ...

Nothing is quite as iconic of the Star Wars franchise as is the lightsaber. A weapon wielded by force-sensitive being of good and evil intent, the lightsaber symbolizes the transcendent nature of the ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Lightsabers are easily the most iconic and popular piece of tech from "Star Wars." Who wouldn't want to own a metallic wand that can produce a three-foot beam of plasma that can cut through almost ...

If the blade has no mass, the lightsaber will rotate about the center of the hilt. If the blade has some mass, the rotation ...

Dr Martin Archer from Queen Mary’s School of Physics and Astronomy had an article published in The Conversation about how feasible the blaster weapons used by, among others, the Star Wars character ...