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Imaging at the speed of light
Over the past few years, researchers have used lasers to manipulate the properties of target materials and make them, for instance, superhydrophilic or superhydrophobic. Now the team has developed a technique to visualize, for the first time, the complete evolution of micro- and nanoscale structural formation on a material's surface both during and after the application of a laser pulse. Ref. Source 6n.
This is how we are going to make super strong metals, and super effective drugs. Of course, messing around like this may have unknown consequences. Small things like unleashing a superbug that kills 80 percent of us outright and turns 15% of us into zombies the other 5% have to fend off. Sound like the plot of a movie? Well, as we mess around with things we don't completely understand we make could turn fiction into reality.