Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory and Imperial College London have found a simple way to make masers. According to team leader Dr. Mark Oxborrow, this “new type of electronic device” could revolutionize the world in the same way lasers did—and even beyond that.How revolutionary, you ask? What about detecting a tiny tumor way before it metastasizes? Or powering a radiotelescope that could put us in contact with alien civilizations?

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