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Lasers provide clues to an early medieval money mystery

Human-made currency such as coins and paper bills have certainly evolved over time. Small pieces of precious metals or paper…

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Lasers smaller than a human hair emit doughnut-shaped light

An artist’s impression of a hollow nanowire emitting doughnut-shaped laser light Masato Takiguchi et al./ACS Photonics/American Chemical Society 2024 Tiny,…

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully tests satellite space lasers

SpaceX and its billionaire CEO Elon Musk may finally have a reason to look over their shoulder in the satellite…

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Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum

The vacuum is not as empty as it might appear ElessarDesign/Shutterstock We may be able to harvest the quantum property…

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Tiny lasers can be made from soap bubbles

Soap bubbles can be turned into lasers that are exceptionally good at sensing electric fields and pressure. “To get lasing,…

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Photonics team develops high-performance ultrafast lasers that fit on a fingertip

Lasers are essential tools for observing, detecting, and measuring things in the natural world that we can’t see with the…

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How frozen baby corals and high-powered lasers could help dying reefs

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like…

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