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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Viewer beware: You may grow disoriented trying to keep track of whether Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor is Batman’s old rival the Joker or an innocent guy singing about romantic aspirations on the dance floor. However, this visual confusion just adds to the hypnotic quality of “Ready for the Floor,” another colorful video from the British dance outfit. The first few seconds of the video position Hot Chip’s world inside a much more somber one, with rain pouring down on an uninviting gray factory. But the lights switch...

Author: By Olga A. Moskvina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hot Chip | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Applications of the laser chip may radiate into environmental sciences, as it will soon monitor the changing concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions, Capasso said. He, along with atmospheric chemistry professor James G. Anderson, plans to collaborate with NASA to send lasers into the stratosphere to study the effects of global warming...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tiny Chip Could Solve Real-World Problems | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Although quantum cascade lasers are already used to study carbon dioxide concentrations, the new chip with the allows researchers to monitor many different gases at the same time, said research associate Mikhail A. Belkin...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tiny Chip Could Solve Real-World Problems | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...small laser chip may also be used for intelligence gathering in satellites and planes by detecting whether factories are releasing toxic compounds through their smoke...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tiny Chip Could Solve Real-World Problems | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...pharmaceutical industry, the laser chip may be used to ensure that all pills conform to standards of chemical composition, rendering the current method obsolete, Belkin said...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tiny Chip Could Solve Real-World Problems | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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