They’re referred to as sails because the concept is exactly the same as that of a sailing ship of centuries past. Instead of cloth and wind, though, a laser sail substitutes in advanced nano ...

Laser Model is a scale version of the famous “one design” Laser, the most popular “real boat” sailing class in the world. The R/C Laser, however, does not require a trailer, life jackets ...

A new paper by researchers at Caltech published in Nature Photonics explores how to test what force a laser would have on a light sail as it travels to another star. The general concept of pushing ...

She’s done it! Yachtswoman Fiona Heenan has set a world record for the longest distance sailed by a woman in a dinghy. It will take a couple of months for Guinness World Records to verify the evidence ...