Physicists achieve record-breaking electron beam power and current

A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced. 

The Most Powerful Picosecond Laser Yet Was Just Unveiled by Scientists

Any advance in laser tech has huge potential across a whole range of fields and we just got a big one: ultra-short laser pulses of up to 100 megawatts, the most powerful of their type ever produced from a human-made system.