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Both groups, one at Harvard's physics department and the private Rowland Institute for Science and the other at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took advantage of the fact that a beam of light can transform matter--a cloud of rubidium atoms in one case, supercooled sodium in the other--from ordinary opaqueness into temporary transparency. Having done that, they shone a second light on the clouds, and then turned the first...
Result: the second beam was compressed more than 100 millionfold in length and "stored" in the form of altered energy states and spin patterns in the atoms. When the triggering beam was turned back on, the light was reconstituted and sped...
FULL-BODY SCAN This is the Cadillac of high-tech testing. Using a technology known as electron-beam computed tomography, radiologists take detailed internal pictures from the shoulders to the pelvis. The whole thing takes 10 minutes and provides such information as how much unwanted calcium has collected in your coronary arteries, whether there is an abnormal growth in your liver or colon or whether your bones are showing early signs of osteoporosis. Cost: $500 to $725, little of which your insurer is likely to reimburse...
...current study slowed light to a stop by shining it on super-cooled gaseous rubidium atoms. The atoms were bathed in laser light while a second beam was shined through them. By adjusting the intensity of the beams, the "fingerprint" of the second beam was imprinted on the electrons of the super-cooled atoms. In that state, the light was standing still...
CLIP-ON SHOE DEODORIZER INVENTOR: TANITA CORP. The Deodorant Light for Shoes has two tiny lamps that beam safe levels of ultraviolet light into shoes to eliminate isovaleric acid--the cause of the disease more commonly known as stinky feet. It was developed for a Japanese market obsessed with cleanliness; each 3-min. treatment eliminates 86.7% of acids. That should...