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She set a photo afire, lit a cigarette — and became a symbol of resistance for Iran protesters

CORRECTS MONTH - A protester lights a cigarette off a burning poster of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a ...

Sapphire XT: Coherent’s New Compact 1W Visible Laser Platform Sets a New Standard for Life Science and Semiconductor Innovations

Sapphire XT meets these needs by offering a fully integrated laser platform that introduces intrinsic modulation enabled by ...
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Sean Penn sparks outrage by lighting cigarette at Golden Globes

While other guests discreetly slipped out in search of an outdoor smoking area, 65-year-old Penn, sitting at a table with ...
Science Daily

Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...
Science Daily

Physicists found a way to make thermodynamics work in the quantum world

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly through motion. That insight laid the foundation for thermodynamics, the ...
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When Lung Cancer Fears Emerged in the 1950s, Kent Put a Filter on their Cigarettes. It Was Made From Asbestos

Mouthpiece end of an original Kent Micronite filter. Image credits: Longo et al / Cancer Research. In the early 1950s, cigarette companies in the US were starting to have a problem. For the first time ...
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Measuring how materials hotter than the sun's surface conduct electricity

Warm dense matter is a state of matter that forms at extreme temperatures and pressures, like those found at the center of most stars and many planets, including Earth. It also plays a role in the ...