The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...

It’s time to find out just how powerful our proto lightsaber really is. Using a retractable 4000°C plasma blade, we take on steel pipes, concrete, and other materials to answer the big question—can ...

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 ...