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  "id": 6465334,
  "title": "38 young African scientists, 17 world experts gather in Kumasi as KNUST launches its new photonics laboratory",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/38-young-african-scientists-17-world-experts-gather-in-kumasi-as",
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  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-09T19:11:46.000Z",
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  "summary": "Its purpose is to build, teach and maintain light-based instruments for health and safety, from devices that authenticate medicines without opening the package, to affordable diagnostic imaging, to sensors that read heavy metals in soil and water in seconds.",
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}