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.

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 ] ...

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.

When green laser pointers first hit the market in the 1990s, they would set you back about $400. These days, they go for as low as $7.75 on Amazon.

A laser beam to the eye shows humans a color we've never seen before We can only imagine what this new color must be like to behold with the naked – albeit laser-blasted – eye DALL-E ...

The laser beam is just one color -- the same hue as a green laser pointer -- but by activating a combination of S, M and L cone cells, it can trick the eye into seeing images in full technicolor.

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 ...

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have announced the discovery of a color never before seen by the human eye. Through a new study, published in Science Advances, researchers used ...

The long-range potency of a laser and the shortness of its action made Burning Man a target rich environment, but it wasn’t until 7 years later when staff got permanent eye damage that BM banned ...

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, ...