OK, I've seen a lot of scientists think outside the box for many years - but this one takes the cake.
Very original.

I just wonder how that research proposal was presented at some staff meeting: "We're gonna feed worms to make quantum dots"

More likely someone said "let's just do this in our spare time" and it turned out to work.

Thus far, their creation has proved to be useful in making LEDs, photovoltaic materials and very small lasers.


Bio-lasers.

Damn, maybe Marvel's "Cyclops" character wasn't so far-fetched after all.

Who would have thought there'd be a "turd laser"?

This technique is as old as the hills medieval smiths filed the metal of swords to powder and included it in the feed to geese later the droppings where processed to recover the metal that had been improved by its passage thru the geese