Fight Against Malaria Goes High-Tech: Scientists Build Anti-Mosquito Laser

Photo: PlaneMad/Wikipedia, CC Not Quite the Original Star Wars... Malaria is a huge problem. About 1 million dead a year, and countless others who suffer. Bill Gates was quite eloquent about it at the TED conference this year (he actually released mosquitoes in the audience). There are many ways to fight it - finding drugs, inexpensive bed nets, insecticides, etc - but this is the first that I hear of shooting down mosquitoes wi...