{"id":3925658,"date":"2026-04-27T04:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:04:27","slug":"self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-organizing &#8216;pencil beam&#8217; laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that&#8217;s faster and higher-resolution than existing technology. They discovered that, under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused &#8220;pencil beam.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-pencil-laser-scientists-brain-therapies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that&#8217;s faster and higher-resolution than existing technology. They discovered that, under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused &#8220;pencil beam.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}