The lightsaber for the Star Wars community, fans, cosplayers, collectors, and duelists—is not a mere glowing object; it is a representation of legacy, power, an ...

Move over Peter Parker: Boston has its own super engineer turning science fiction into real life. Jacob Uy just graduated from Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts, where he spent the ...

Walt Disney Imagineering has created some pretty incredible stuff over the decades, but few have been quite as embraced as Walt Disney World’s “real” lightsaber. It was fully extendable, just like the ...

Lightsabers have long been science fiction, but researchers are inching closer to making them real. This documentary explores how close we truly are to wielding ...

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Nothing is quite as iconic of the Star Wars franchise as is the lightsaber. A weapon wielded by force-sensitive being of good and evil intent, the lightsaber symbolizes the transcendent nature of the ...

A chemist has explained what Star Wars’most iconic lightsaber colors would mean in the real world. When the original Star Wars movie, later retitled A New Hope, first premiered in 1977, audiences were ...