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 ...

(Reuters Health) - Used incorrectly, laser pointers can damage the retina of the eye and may cause some irreversible vision loss, according to researchers who treated four boys for these injuries.

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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 ...

Being an airline pilot is a job of tremendous pressure. It goes without saying, then, that expertise and absolute concentration are paramount. So much so, in fact, that the Federal Aviation ...

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 ...

For many years, one of the biggest stumbling blocks I faced at star parties was the confusion that arose whenever I tried to show attendees the locations of notable stars and constellations or the ...