Pete Snell wrote:
Life imitates Star Trek.
http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html
In this week’s Nature Physics an international team, led by Oxford
University scientists, report that a short pulse from the FLASH laser
‘knocked out’ a core electron from every aluminium atom in a sample
without disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. This turned the
aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation.