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(PhysOrg.com) -- If there is life on other planets, a laser frequency comb developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help find it.

Laser frequency combs -- extraordinarily precise tools for measuring frequencies (or colors) of light -- have helped propel advances in timekeeping, trace gas detection and related physics research to new heights in the past decade.