{"id":15323,"date":"2015-07-09T07:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/molecules-have-been-built-using-a-laser-beam-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:00:39","slug":"molecules-have-been-built-using-a-laser-beam-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/molecules-have-been-built-using-a-laser-beam-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Molecules Have Been Built Using a Laser Beam for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/sites\/www.iflscience.com\/files\/blog\/%5Bnid%5D\/shutterstock_287581919.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official: Star Trek-style replicators are on the way. Well, sort of. Assembly lines for specific molecules could be a thing of the future, thanks to a recent breakthrough in atomic bonding published in the journal Physical Review Letters. A team of scientists has found a way of using laser beams to control the path of chemical processes, possibly ushering in a new age of photochemistry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/space\/molecules-have-been-built-using-laser-beam-first-time\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: Star Trek-style replicators are on the way. Well, sort of. Assembly lines for specific molecules could be a thing of the future, thanks to a recent breakthrough in atomic bonding published in the journal Physical Review Letters. A team of scientists has found a way of using laser beams to control the path [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46346,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15323\/revisions\/46346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}