The team hopes the laser could be built into a remote-controlled robotic device which could be despatched into a mine field, looking for vapour clouds.

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Apparently this coca field may also be a mine field.

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The big question, of course, brought to the fore by Meredith Whitney and Nouriel Roubini recently is will we be facing widespread municipal bankruptcies rendering the muni-market a mine field of investor disasters?

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Whereas the largest players on the web are seeing heavy downloads based on name recognition and a shift in user behavior to more mobile-driven experiences, it appears that those same players have not yet figured out how to mine the field in terms of revenue.

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As the metal detector sweeps over the mine, the dots grow, creating a visual outline of the mine in the field.

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Once the men have been extracted, they will undergo about two hours of health checks at a field hospital set up at the mine.

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However, if you are an outlier looking for a career in this fast-growing, lucrative field both here and abroad, check out Career Mine.

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Some friends of mine in the cognitive science world agreed this could make some sense, as when one is a novice in a field, you have limited working memory about the topic.

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