In today’s healthy lifestyle oriented world, blowing smoke rings won’t impress too many people anymore. Unless of course you are [NightHawkInLight] and blow them with a vortex cannon and add lasers ...

For many Americans who wished they could change the weather -- whether it be in the Northeast during this past winter or in drought-stricken California-- researchers may have found a way to aim a high ...

I remember when I was in Australia a few years back, people complained that there was a severe shortage of rain. I had never heard water talked about so much in my life: Everything from radio programs ...

Shooting lasers at the sky can make the germ of a raincloud, a new study shows. In an experiment that smacks of science fiction, scientists used a high-powered laser to squeeze water from air, both ...

Narrow, laser-bored tunnels through the clouds could clear the way for "fiberless" fiber speeds. Unlike cloud nucleation, the laser vaporizes water and doesn't generate rain. This new way doesn't ...

Laser blasts might help scientists tweak Earth’s thermostat by shattering the ice crystals found in cirrus clouds. Zapping tiny ice particles in the lab forms new, smaller bits of ice, researchers ...

Shooting lasers at the sky can make the germ of a rain cloud, a new study shows. In an experiment that smacks of science fiction, scientists used a high-powered laser to squeeze water from air, both ...