Princeton Unveils Bomb-detecting Lasers

That's right. Take that, Austin Powers.Princeton's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has developed a new laser that can detect and identify trace chemicals in the air, which is 1000 times more sensitive than the laser technology being used today.With funding from the Office of Naval Research, Princeton's engineers expect that this laser could eventually produce a remote, bomb-scanning military device small enough to be mounted on a tank. As professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Richard Miles told TG Daily:

"In general, when you want to determine if there are contaminants in the air you need to collect a sample of that air and test it...but with remote sensing you don't need to do that. If there's a bomb buried on the road ahead of you, you'd like to detect it by sampling the surrounding air, much like bomb-sniffing dogs can do, except from far away."

Oh, it can also detect pollution. Technology that both the army and the peace-loving environmentalists can agree on? Science, you amaze me.Read more about our super awesome lasers here.