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The team hopes the work will ultimately serve as a practical guide for designing the next generation of ultrafast lasers used in medicine, imaging, manufacturing, and other advanced technologies.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

This architecture uses individual atoms held in place by laser beams, which serve as qubits, or the fundamental units of information in a quantum computer.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The multi-eyed organism will serve as the centerpiece of “the N.E.S.T.,” an EIT-designed section of Meow Wolf’s new 26,000-square-foot immersive exhibition space.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude will serve as the “standard harness” that connects the biopharma company’s various data sources to the AI, said Greg Meyers, Bristol-Myers’s chief digital and technology officer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

What he was proposing, in effect, was a stratum of artificial bedrock that would also serve as the floor of the basement.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson