I’m sure all of you reading this have seen or used a laser pointer at some point in your life, or maybe you’ve even bought one online. But have you ever paid attention to the warning signs on your ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

Low-cost apparatus designed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices has shown that nearly 90 ...

Those laser pointers people aim at planes flying overhead can’t permanently damage a pilot’s vision, according to a medical study published Tuesday, casting doubt on government advisories to the ...

“Repaired, then over-repaired, until I broke it for good.” How did this solution eventually lead to dissolution? According to Paul Rako, the laser pointer took too much of a “beading.” The batteries ...