Lasers

Man Charged After Laser Hits Police Helicopter (WXII-TV Winston-Salem)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:32:57 GMT
WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Police have charged a man with interfering with a flight crew after a police helicopter pilot said someone on the ground pointed a laser at his aircraft during a night flight.

NC Man Charged After Laser Hits Police Helicopter (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:53:41 GMT
Police spokeswoman Lucy Crockett said 30-year-old Nicholas Lexton Wheeler was charged and released on bond.

Laser use gets Wilmington man in trouble (Greensboro News & Record)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:08:19 GMT
WILMINGTON (AP) — Police have charged a man with interfering with a flight crew after a police helicopter pilot said someone on the ground pointed a laser at his aircraft during a night flight. The Star-News of Wilmington reported today that police said Officer Peter Letson was flying the helicopter to support officers on the ground about 8:20 p.m. Saturday. When his eyes were hit by the ...

Vilnius Light Show Leads 900 Events in European Culture Capital (Bloomberg)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:40:56 GMT
German artist Gert Hof fired lasers and fireworks in the Lithuanian capital’s Cathedral Square -- the first of almost 900 events scheduled for the year.

Nano "Tractor Beam" Traps DNA (Kansas City InfoZine)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:14:50 GMT
Researchers use beams of light to grab and hold molecules

Creek gets high-tech look; Project to examine Hinkson sediment. (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:47:13 GMT
What’s wrong with the water in Hinkson Creek? Jason Hubbart, an assistant professor of hydrology and water quality at the University of Missouri, intends to find out. In the process he might help the urban stream lose its distinction as an "impaired waterway," removing it from a federal list where it has been for 10 years.

Event: Solar Music Festival @ Mornington Racecourne, Mornington Peninsula (03/01/2009) (Faster Louder)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:15:07 GMT
The Presets, Pnau, Kisschasy and more entertained an excitable crowd at the first Solar Music Festival.

Lasers could help farmers save water (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:15:55 GMT
The hope is to offer a more accurate, up-to-date reading of how efficiently the crops are using water.

Football chained to first-down system (Austin American-Statesman)
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:10:07 GMT
Before there were four downs in football, before six points were awarded for a touchdown, even before there was an annual Rose Bowl or something called the National Football League, there were chains on the sideline.

A Bright Idea for a New Kind of Microscope (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:41:37 GMT
A new laser microscopy imaging technique that uses the principles underlying holography is making it possible for researchers to greatly speed up imaging and to optically manipulate living cells in any pattern in space or time, according to new research published by a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists.

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