Lasers cut precisely and without contact—ideal for surgery. The problem is that in hard tissues such as bone, they are too ...

Seeking a gentler alternative, medical engineers have long explored laser technology. Because lasers operate without physical ...

The Basel team modified its laser pulse from a Gaussian profile to a top-hat shape, theorizing that a beamshaping operation would prevent laser energy being consumed by the walls of the cut. A "capped ...

Scientists trying to identify a corpse painstakingly cut out a tiny piece of bone, crush it to powder and finally extract DNA. The experts whose work is to put names to human remains at the University ...