Word: laser
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...graduate student and then as a postdoctoral research fellow, Armstrong worked in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance and nonlinear optics. His post-doctoral adviser was Nicolaas Bloembergen, who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in physics for a paper co-authored by Armstrong on laser spectroscopy and non-linear optics...
...team in Armstrong’s lab was known as the Harvard Mafia, according to Wynne. Though Armstrong was Wynne’s supervisor, the two became collaborators and published several papers together, mostly on laser science...
...replaced it with something that nobody in his right mind would recognize as video-game hardware at all: a short, stubby, wireless wand that resembles nothing so much as a TV remote control. Humble as it looks on the outside, it's packed full of gadgetry: it's part laser pointer and part motion sensor, so it knows where you're aiming it, when and how fast you move it and how far it is from the TV screen. There's a strong whiff of voodoo about it. If you want your character on the screen to swing a sword...
...fungus in retreat, a team of restorers comes into the cave every two weeks - dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks - to remove filaments from the walls. Another team visits regularly to audit the cave's sanitary condition using laser imaging. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says one member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, set up by the French Ministry of Culture in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they say about Ariel Sharon." The sad fact is that today...
...deep into Red Rolfe Field’s cavernous center field. Taylor Meehan followed with a high chopper that just eluded the reach of the Dartmouth first baseman, and Josh Klimkiewicz—in the midst of a monster day at the plate—scored Meehan with a laser-beam double to right-center...