The boy "reported playing with a green laser pointer and repeatedly gazing into the laser beam," the report said. [ 'Eye' Can't Look: 9 Eyeball Injuries That Will Make You Squirm ] ...

Specifically, the green laser drives some of the crystal’s electrons into an excited state, and when they decay, they enter a state where they absorb blue light that would otherwise pass through.

In the last 20 years, green lasers have shrunk from table-size lab equipment to pocket-portable presentation tools (not to mention cat toys). But making laser pointers a household item may have ...

A 9-year-old boy in Greece permanently injured his left eye when he repeatedly gazed into a laser pointer’s green beam, doctors say. CNN values your feedback 1.

The green laser beam thus behaves like an object, blocking the blue light and casting a dark line across the screen. RELATED STORIES — Next-gen quantum computers could be powered using chip with ...

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BALTIMORE -- A police sergeant suffered corneal damage after a laser beam was shined into their eyes while responding to a car gathering in Canton over the weekend, ...