28 Jun 2024

MacGyver's Laser

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 28 June 2024
Red laser beams on black background

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MacGyver could find his way out of any situation and turn just about anything at all into a weapon or a bomb.

Dr Karen Thorn is a postdoctoral fellow at Victoria University of Wellington working in the Ultrafast Laser Spectros-copy Group led by MacDiarmid Institute Co-Director Prof Justin Hodgkiss. So she is perfectly placed to critique how our hero makes a laser out of a golden platter, a bowl and some precious gems.

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