Straight out of the Mass Effect universe and into real life—we built and tested a working plasma rifle replica. From design to firepower, we put this sci-fi weapon to the test to see just how ...

Eighteen of 36 plasma guns are in place on the machine that could make fusion ... teach scientists how to create that energy efficiently enough to be worthwhile for real-world use. The promise of ...

You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing h.osborne@newsweek.com Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to start experiments with "plasma guns" in the hope of ...

Eighteen of 36 plasma guns are in place on the machine that could ... create that energy efficiently enough to be worthwhile for real-world use. The promise of fusion is that it produces tons ...

So far he has tested the gun using metal rods made of graphite, aluminum and copper-coated tungsten, like the ones pictured below. It can also fire carbon projectiles and teflon/plasma rods.

Watch the Hacksmith team transform a mere Nerf gun into a faux-plasma rifle worthy of a Mass ... but when you're dead set on making a real-life prop from a video game like Mass Effect, it takes ...