The feds should ban powerful green laser pointers that can blind pilots, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday. Schumer called on the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the devices, which are brighter, ...

After testing 122 commercially available laser pointers, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that 90% of the green and 44% of the red pointers did not comply with ...

Every now and then, one of my columns elicits enough reader response to merit a follow-up. Such is the case with a piece I wrote on green laser pointers (November 2013), in which I outlined their ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic ophthalmologists have found commercially available Class 3A green laser pointers can cause visible harm to the eye's retina with exposures as short as 60 seconds. The ...

A commercially available green laser pointer can cause visible harm to the retina at exposure times as low as 60 seconds, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic. Dennis Robertson, MD, and ...

To astronomers, the new breed of hand-held laser pointer is a way to write in the sky, its two-mile-long beam allowing them to trace constellations and point out individual stars. To a lost hiker, the ...

The Raiders-Texans game in Mexico City went off without a hitch, mostly. But Houston quarterback Brock Osweiler was targeted with a laser pointer during the second quarter Monday in Estadio Azteca, ...

For all the whining everyone’s always doing about jetpacks and other tech of the future, you’d think we’d be more impressed with the teeming abundance and affordability of lasers. In fact, we’re so ...

Laser pointers can be a fun tool for highlighting stars in the sky or for entertaining your cat, but misuse of green laser pointers may be dangerous. New research shows that shining a green laser ...

A 9-year-old boy in Greece was left with damaged vision after staring into a laser pointer. His doctors describe the case in a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The boy's parents ...