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Laser Prototype Improves Bomb Detection

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-more-boom dept.

angry tapir writes "Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia have developed a prototype laser device capable of detecting tiny traces of explosive vapor, an invention that has the potential to put bomb sniffer dogs out of a job. The prototype – a pulsed, quantum laser-based, cavity ring-down spectrometer – is being tested at the US government's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico."

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  1. I need glasses... by Hagaric · · Score: 4, Funny

    I clicked on this thinking it said "Laser Prototype Improves Bomb Detonation" and am disappointed..