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 ...

Get ready for the world’s first 4000° plasma lightsaber with a retractable blade. Watch as I demonstrate the technology behind this sci-fi dream turned reality and see it in action like never before!

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He now tells The Verge he’s not sure it’s happening, but he may have said too much. He now tells The Verge he’s not sure it’s happening, but he may have said too much. is a senior editor and founding ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...