mouse

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Before the iPhone, Apple shook up home computing with the 1984 Macintosh, whose icon-based interface and mouse made computing accessible beyond specialists -- and sparked a legendary rivalry between Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

In the new study, scientists used experiments in both human and mouse cells to identify the enzyme BMP1, which cuts SLIT3 into these two fragments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

The group used liquid nitrogen to rapidly cool mouse brain tissue to minus 196 degrees Celsius, then kept it in a minus-150-degree-Celsius freezer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He clicked the mouse on a window displaying several lines of Smalltalk code, made a minor edit, and returned to the text.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

“Get away!” he would say, and he would chase off the cats, the birds, the occasional mouse or rat on the underground.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell