Now radiologists are touting radio-wave zapping as a viable fourth weapon against smaller tumors.
But when it comes, runaway drivers will get a zapping they will never forget.
Inside a packed Internet cafe in Hangzhou, Zhan Pengfei is zapping monsters on a screen.
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Raytheon has been zapping things since its research labs inadvertently produced the first microwave oven in 1958.
Downtown Sarajevo opened for business Tuesday, although technical difficulties were zapping the strength of the electrical flow.
External beam radiation involves zapping a patient with high-dose X rays generated by a machine called a linear accelerator.
Steady advances in tumor-zapping technology has allowed the company to introduce more elaborate, and costlier, treatments as they emerge.
Optogenetics could someday lead to implantable brain devices that correct malfunctioning circuits by zapping them with pulses of light.
Media firms, meantime, have earned new revenue by zapping the data from the government directly into clients' trading computers.
Trading glitches have increased in frequency over the last few years, zapping investor confidence on markets and their infrastructure.
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Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, a leading space research center, recently conducted feasibility studies into junk-zapping lasers and garbage-collecting rockets.
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Myhrvold and his inventors had already done a lot of thinking about using tiny optical filters capable of identifying and zapping microscopic particles.
By zapping the silicon with a laser it is possible to heat it, and cause it to form crystals, without melting the plastic.
The click to escape a pay story to find a free one is just as easy as zapping a TV commercial with a remote.
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You talked about how there are lots of ways to hurt fragile satellites with everything from ground stations to zapping or jamming or otherwise blasting them.
Powerful interests -- Microsoft, credit card concerns, banks -- are betting billions that zapping around e-cash will be as commonplace as sticking a card in an ATM.
Starting last month, customers who order EchoStar satellite TV service can get--free--a DVR with 100 hours of storage (120 gigabytes) and a "30-second skip" button expressly designed for ad-zapping.
Next door a laser cutter is zapping an etching into a glass bottle, and across the way someone is carving elegant curved strips of wood to make a wine carrier.
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And, year after year, the big networks imposed hefty price increases for ads, even as millions of viewers defected to cable, and early zapping technology--the remote control and the VCR--took hold.
They did this by putting pieces of silicon or one of a number of other solid materials inside a shoe-box-sized cavity and zapping the material with microwaves from a metal tip.
While we aren't sure which nations are targeted for primary testing in December, you should probably pack some RFID-zapping heat when perusing through the aisles this holiday season if this tin-hat-donner has you in a tizzy like it does us.
Never mind zapping movies and sitcoms over the Web (that is so Nineties)--Semel is betting on "social media, " letting some of Yahoo's 200 million registered customers create their own content and share it with whomever they choose, linking up in rich multimedia cliques to swap pithy commentary and photos, songs, games, home videos and interactive fare that users themselves will invent.
In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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