Some scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (of course) are machining cheese into intricate shapes with the help of pulsed ultraviolet lasers.
"Wisconsin is a big dairy and cheese making state and we were approached by a company that wanted to know if we could use a laser to cut thin slices of cheese at high speed," Xiaochun Li, one of the researchers, told optics.org. "One motivation is the ability to cut cheese into fancy shapes that appeal to kids, such as a dinosaur or letters. The fast food industry is very interested in that idea."
