Quick: what’s the most successful, stable, one-design dinghy class in world history? Answer: the Laser, of course, now rolling past 200,000 boats worldwide. In fact, in celebration of this milestone, ...

There has been huge progress on laser pushed sails. Laser pushed sails appear to be a path to sending probes up to 20% of the speed of light when we can make 1 gram sails that are one to two meters on ...

Nextbigfuture has a weekly video review of the big stories in science and technology. The later part of the video discusses laser pushed sails for fast missions around the solar system and then ...

Last summer, Paul Cronin, a naval architect from Jamestown, R.I., architect from Jamestown, R.I., teased our curiosity when we casually asked him what he’d been up to lately. “I’m working on a project ...

Nanoscale features of a laser-driven light sail showing germanium pillars and air holes embedded in a poly(methyl methacrylate) matrix, designed to achieve high ...