LASER

The FAA says it’s happening more now than ever before: People aiming lasers at planes and helicopters.

The FAA says there was a 41% increase in laser strikes on aircraft in 2021, compared to the previous year. NBC 7’s Investigates Alexis Rivas has more.

TODAY anchor Savannah Guthrie is hopeful for a quick recovery after her 2-year-old son hit her in the right eye with a toy last week, causing a tear in her retina and loss of vision. Savannah has been out of work the past two days since a freak incident involving her son, Charley, who was sitting in her lap when...

Deep within a rainforest in Belize, scientists using lasers beamed from an airplane to peer beneath the dense foliage have discovered evidence of a vast network of ancient Maya farms that date back thousands of years, NBC News reports. The findings, part of more than 20 years of research in this part of Central America, show how the ancient Maya...

Taylor Swift reacts to some never-before-seen footage of her acting loopy after laser eye surgery and she teases what songs she’ll perform on “Saturday Night Live.”

One patient said his wife was ready to leave him over his snoring. But after a new treatment that – without surgery — he was able to stop snoring, and avoid Apnea. See it on California Live, Monday Sept. 30, 2019.

President Donald Trump doesn’t make mistakes. At least according to him. Trump’s relentless justifications of his erroneous warnings that Hurricane Dorian was threatening Alabama on Sunday, which created days of ridicule and skepticism, are just the latest example of the president’s lifelong reluctance to admit an error, no matter how innocuous.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that the decision to withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory was her government’s own initiative to break the impasse, and not Beijing’s directive. Lam told a news conference that China’s central government “understands, respects and supports” her government in the entire process. Withdrawal of the...

Hair is essential to self confidence for many. Dr. Tess has a treatment that can help for men and women going bald to help reverse the process. Dr. Tess and her husband Dr. Lee – who went through the procedure – explain on California Live Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019.

Placido Domingo returns to the stage at the Salzburg Festival this weekend to perform for the first time since multiple women accused the opera legend of sexual harassment in allegations brought to light by The Associated Press. Two opera houses in the United States have canceled performances, but no European opera house has taken Domingo off the bill. Instead, some...

Specialists are using lasers to clean up the black biofilm on the Jefferson Memorial dome.

A professional skateboarder from San Diego’s North County is being held in high regard by fans, peers and icon Tony Hawk after becoming the first-ever skateboarder to land a 1260 trick at the X Games.

Gone is the haze of cigarette, cigar and pipe smoke. Gone are the coffee, soda and pizza stains. With only a few exceptions, NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Control has been restored to the way it looked 50 years ago when two men landed on the moon.

It’s back to the moon for brands from Omega to Budweiser marking 50 years since Apollo 11

NBC 7 spoke with the doctor behind the procedure that could make coffee breath a thing of the past.

Sit back and watch, or jump in the action? Spaces CEO Shiraz Akmal.

In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon. An optimistic assessment is 10 years. Many others say decades as researchers try to...

San Diego shuts out San Francisco to start 2019

The company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people, announced Thursday that it won’t operate the vessels this year because of the ongoing investigation and will instead open a replacement attraction in the tourist town of Branson.

Frustrated by a divided Congress and rifts within his own party, President Donald Trump is giving little indication in his latest budget proposal of any new policy ambitions for the coming two, or six, years. Trump’s budget plan increases spending on his border wall and the military but is light on fresh ideas heading into his re-election campaign. His budget...