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 look slick, flashy, and strangely survivable in Star Wars , but physics isn’t impressed by movie logic. A recent breakdown from the aptly named Mr. Death strips away the cinematic flair ...

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 ...