/channels/taxonomy/term/26343/all en /channels/channels/news/poverty-reduction-evolutionary-change-and-laser-cutting-340113 <p><img alt=" H. Borchers et al." src="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/laser-cutting.jpg" style="width:100%" /></p> <h6><em>Pac-Man carving by laser cutting. Credit: H. Borchers et al.</em></h6> <h2>A gentler, more precise laser cutting technique</h2> <p>Laser cutting techniques are usually powered by high energy beams, so hot that they melt most materials. Now scientists from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº have developed a gentler, more precise technique using low-power visible light.</p> Thu, 30 Jun 2022 17:24:23 +0000 webfull 180742 at /channels /channels/channels/news/new-policy-brief-isid-increasing-access-affordable-agricultural-microinsurance-sub-saharan-africa-334227 <p>In this new policy brief by Brenden McKinney, we learn that the effects of climate change are causing risk management to become an increasingly essential tool to help farmers anticipate and react to weather- related shocks like droughts and floods.</p> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:15:54 +0000 webfull 174023 at /channels