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Blink and you'll miss it

The invention of an ultrafast oscilloscope could yield advances in fields from telecoms to nuclear fusion.

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Sanderson, K. Blink and you'll miss it. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1210

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