Laser bug zapper combats malaria

See a lecture about the device and its creation at
http://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_zap_malaria.html

"What if  you could shine a nonlethal laser on the bug before you zap it, and you could listen to the wing beat frequency, and you could measure the size. And then you could decide: Is this an insect I want to kill, or an insect I don't want to kill?"

Marriage proposal

Takes a lot of guts, and a lot of practice! He really fell for her.

Stem cell therapy working for minor wounds like ACL tears in the knee

An article on veterinary use of stem cells to repair injuries in prize horses.

Unusual vacation ideas - Science tours

Tour a Kansas salt mine and giant archives - http://undergroundmuseum.org/index.php
Tennessee - tour the most intense neutron beam, and a uranium-enrichment plant, see models of nuclear reactors...
http://ornl.gov/ornlhome/visiting.shtml
Livermore CA - Simulations of worst-case scenario disasters, see world's highest energy laser...
https://www.llnl.gov/about/tours.html
Brookhaven, Long Island - Dept of Energy labs - collider, brightest X-ray source, National Weather Service (storm-tracker) http://www.bnl.gov/community/summer_sunday.asp

From Popular Science, May '11, p.73