Plasma physicists move into medicine
Plasma-based approach could become “the surgery of the future”
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Hollow fibre carries megawatt pulses
Optical physicists have made a photonic-band gap fibre that can transmit megawatt pulses
Tinnitus treatment tones up
Physicists have devised a new model that could help sufferers of tinnitus
Cold plasmas destroy bacteria
Plasmas could be used to sterilize medical equipment
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Solar surgery makes progress
Researchers have improved a surgical technique based on solar radiation
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Adaptive optics may help opticians
A technique from astronomy could help fight eye disease
Nanotechnology is good for the heart
Scientists have built a nanoscale device that can detect proteins associated with heart attacks
Imaging an infant brain
Scientists take the first 3-D images of a newborn baby’s brain using transmitted light measurements
Lasers lick dentists’ drills
Ultrashort laser pulses could be used to remove tooth decay painlessly
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Semiconductors stride ahead
Medicine, communications and computing could benefit from advances in semiconductor science
