A team of international scientists offers a new approach to analyzing nature with great precision and efficiency. The team, which includes Korea University professor Cho Min-haeng, said that the team successfully discovered electronic dynamics in the early photosynthesis process via two-dimensional spectroscopy. "These are the first results of actually applying two-dimensional spectroscopy to the real world in a full-fledged manner," 40-year-old Cho said. Spectroscopy is one of the latest scientific techniques used by physicists and astronomers to study the makeup of an object based on the light it emits. Two-dimensional spectroscopy is a more advanced tool, which enables scientists to conduct in-depth analyses of objects by using multiple lasers. Cho noted that conventional spectroscopy is to black-and-white television what two-dimensional spectroscopy is to the latest color television. "Multi-dimensional spectroscopy offers a new powerful tool to observe the microscopic world. Our next target is the proteins, since their swift movement could not be observed through traditional methods," Cho said. The breakthrough with the optical technology will be published in the next edition of the journal Nature.