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

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma blade that can slice through steel has forced a small Canadian workshop to ...

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 ...

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 ...