The Virginia Tech team put a laser sensor on the front of the car to look for activity in nearby areas.
VOA: special.2009.11.03
Its ultimate aim is to build a series of laser tracking stations in various countries to provide a defensive shield for activity in space.
VOA: standard.2010.07.24
The discovery of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity, vital to much of modern technology and economic activity, including the transistor, the laser and the atomic bomb.
In a series of animal experiments published over the past year, university-based neuroscientists genetically engineered mice and monkeys with different types of neurons primed to be uniquely responsive to shades of laser light, so that a single type of activity or behavior could be altered instantly without affecting anything else.