{"id":206800,"date":"2025-02-19T20:06:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/laser-based-device-can-scan-almost-any-sample-of-gas-and-tell-you-whats-in-it"},"modified":"2025-02-19T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T02:06:37","slug":"laser-based-device-can-scan-almost-any-sample-of-gas-and-tell-you-whats-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/laser-based-device-can-scan-almost-any-sample-of-gas-and-tell-you-whats-in-it","title":{"rendered":"Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what\u2019s in it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-based-device-can-scan-almost-any-sample-of-gas-and-tell-you-whats-in-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Expert sommeliers can take a whiff of a glass of wine and tell you a lot about what\u2019s in your pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. A team of physicists at CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a similar feat of sensing, only for a much wider range of substances.<\/p>\n<p>The group has developed a new laser-based device that can take any sample of gas and identify a huge variety of the molecules within it. It is sensitive enough to detect those molecules at minute concentrations all the way down to parts per trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Its design is also simple enough that researchers could employ the method quickly and at a low cost in a range of settings, from diagnosing illnesses in human patients to tracking <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/greenhouse+gas+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> from factories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert sommeliers can take a whiff of a glass of wine and tell you a lot about what\u2019s in your pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. A team of physicists at CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a similar feat of sensing, only for a much wider range of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206800","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}