The laser is like a spot welder.

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When the card is used, the retailer's card reader takes a laser reading at a specified spot and from a specified angle.

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The resulting laser-fiber-microscope combo can spot such 1-in-10 million traveling cancer cells in 30 minutes.

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Using a Fresnel lens, they were able to snap a photograph of the dark spot left in the atom's wake as the laser passed over it.

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Its boffins in Bangalore are working on projects ranging from a red laser to preserve food to a DNA nano-machine to deliver drugs to precisely the right spot in a patient's body.

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