Instead of nostalgia, perhaps it was uncanny foresight that led some people to keep their obsolete long-playing records all these years. A team of Swedish and American scientists has now put a new spin on the old platters—using them to focus X rays, on the cheap.
The inventors aim to employ their novel LP-based lens to make X rays converge in an innovative mammography machine.
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