Lasers tackle radioactive waste
Iodine-129, which has a half-life of 15.7 million years, has been transmuted into a lighter isotope with a half-life of just 25 minutes
Fast and slow light made easy
Superluminal light has been now been observed in a crystal at room temperature
Dawn of the cantilaser
A mechanical laser could pioneer nano-scale experiments
Solar surgery makes progress
Researchers have improved a surgical technique based on solar radiation
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Double funding boost for Daresbury
UK lab receives £11.5m for light source and £25.7m for science park
Making light of a difficult phase
A new technique can produce attosecond light pulses that could be used to control electrons
Nanowires approach the quantum realm
Researchers have made the smallest silicon nanowires ever
Nanowire lasers go electric
Scientists have made the first electrically driven nanowire laser
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Plasma accelerators take shape
Researchers use laser pulses in a jet of helium gas in a new approach to particle acceleration
Lasers target hard drugs
Laser spectroscopy could be used to detect heroin and morphine
