We also got signs of forced entry, and... a bunch of stolen lab gear. We got, uh, bioreactor, particle protector, couple of laser microscopes.

No, because I examined the cuts under the confocal laser-scanning microscope.

The brakes are put on light speed inside Hau's lab... by focusing lasers on two microscopic clouds of sodium gas... chilled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero.