Word: laser
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...graduate student put the silicon wafers and the gas in a chamber and shot them with short, intense laser pulses—the focus of Mazur’s research at the time. “The rest,” Mazur said in a recent interview, “is history...
...Gist:Who knew beef was so powerful? According to this new pair of bovine books, the cow has greatly influenced the history of America (says Fussell) and the history of, oh, all of human history (claim Rimas and Fraser). Fussell, a vigorous and delightful writer, focuses her laser-sharp observations on the American West, while Rimas and Fraser are a little rangier, spanning from prehistory to the present and from Argentina to Africa...
...divisions were Laser divisions, with the competitors sailing singlehandedly...
...found it to be much more effective than using a tiny laser pointer or trying to describe verbally what students should be focusing on,” he said...
...Sept. 29, NASA announced that a laser instrument aboard the Phoenix lander, which touched down north of Mars' arctic circle last May, had spotted snow falling through the planet's frigid sky. Martian snowfall isn't like earthly snowfall; this descended from some 2.4 miles (4 km) up and appeared to vaporize before it reached the surface. Still, the picture that Phoenix is painting is of a meteorologically dynamic world, one not only with occasional flurries but also with clouds and fog forming at night in addition to the famed Martian winds...