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 ...

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 ...

Carolyn Trietsch recently defended her Ph.D. in entomology at Penn State. You can view her website or follow her on Twitter @carolyntrietsch. Laser pointers are perhaps the most abused visual aids in ...

NEW YORK – A 15-year-old boy damaged his eyes while playing with a laser pointer he'd bought over the Internet, say doctors who warn that dangerously high-powered versions are easily available online.

Sunnyvale, CA, used a laser to deter crows from a downtown plaza, causing concern from the FAA due to its proximity to airports and the risk to pilots. The FAA warned about the dangers of lasers to ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning residents not to point lasers at aircraft following an incident Tuesday.

When the first consumer laser pointers hit the market around 1980, they were an expensive novelty. Now, you can pick one up for $1.99 at a gas station. But if you ask Colette DeHarpporte, they’re ...

THURSDAY, Sept. 1, 2016 -- Laser pointers may look harmless enough, but when children play with them kids can end up with blurry vision, blind spots or potentially permanent vision loss, eye experts ...

Laser pointers are popular as cat toys, and videos of cats desperately chasing laser pointers are often seen on social media. Experts explain whether playing with this laser pointer has a negative ...

High-powered laser pens can do a lot more harm than just distracting an opposing player, like cause permanent blindness, and the fear is that the trend that's taken hold amongst European soccer fans ...

The videos from [styropyro] are always amusing and informative. However, ironically for him, he is alarmed that many green laser pointers are more powerful than they are supposed to be. Sure, you ...