Blue Steel: Not Just for Zoolander Anymore

We confess that we completely forgot Jeff Koons‘ birthday (it was January 21), but we’re planning to make it up to him with the perfect belated gift: a femtosecond laser that can be used to change the color of virtually any metal he chooses! That’s right–thanks to a newly discovered laser processing technique (again with the lasers!), Koons can zap up some gold aluminum, black gold, purple silver, and yes, blue steel.

The breakthrough, which was recently published in the journal Applied

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