{"id":223712,"date":"2025-10-21T04:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/laser-method-can-detect-chemical-weapons-and-bacteria-in-seconds"},"modified":"2025-10-21T04:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:21:35","slug":"laser-method-can-detect-chemical-weapons-and-bacteria-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/laser-method-can-detect-chemical-weapons-and-bacteria-in-seconds","title":{"rendered":"Laser method can detect chemical weapons and bacteria in seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-method-can-detect-chemical-weapons-and-bacteria-in-seconds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Ume\u00e5 University and the Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, have developed new laser methods that can quickly detect chemical weapons and harmful bacteria directly on site\u2014without the need to send samples to a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Hazardous chemicals can appear in many forms. They can be pollutants in waterways, pesticides in our food, or synthetic substances designed to cause harm\u2014such as narcotics or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+weapons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical weapons<\/a>. To reduce the risk of these substances entering our bodies, it is crucial to be able to detect them quickly and reliably.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/umu.diva-portal.org\/smash\/record.jsf?language=sv&pid=diva2%3A2002435&dswid=4956\" target=\"_blank\">doctoral thesis<\/a> from Ume\u00e5 University shows how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser light<\/a> can be used to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Ume\u00e5 University and the Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI, have developed new laser methods that can quickly detect chemical weapons and harmful bacteria directly on site\u2014without the need to send samples to a laboratory. Hazardous chemicals can appear in many forms. They can be pollutants in waterways, pesticides in our food, or synthetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223712","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}