News for the paranoid: Harvard uses lasers for mind control

By adamg on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 12:55pm

OK, granted, it's just to control the actions of worms that are "smaller than a pinhead," but you know they're not going to stop there. Plus, look what they named their project.

C. elegans comes to a complete stop when flashed with a green laser:

Inactivating a worm's muscles with laser light from Samuel Lab on Vimeo.

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