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Mike McRae

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Deputy editor for ScienceAlert, columnist for Double Helix, and writer of random Post-its. All opinions are my own (as much as I'd like to blame somebody else).
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A laser just photographed objects through six feet of concrete Original

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By Mike McRae Verified
| New Atlas Verified
Superman was cheated. X-ray vision isn’t where it’s at. If yesterday’s writers of comic books knew what we know today, the Man of Steel would have shot muons from his eyes to see through walls of stone. Firing up the world’s most powerful laser at Romania’s Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), a team of physicists generated a beam of high-energy particles called muons to image an object through meters of concrete.
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A laser just photographed objects through six feet of concrete

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By Mike McRae Verified
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11 hours ago For when a .docx lands in your inbox. TL;DR: Through Oct. 4 at 11:59 p.m. PT, a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows is $16.97 (reg. $229). That’s 92% off, with no subscription. Nobody gets excited about spreadsheets. But sooner or later, someone sends you an Excel …
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Drug 10 times stronger than fentanyl claiming lives in the US Original

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By Mike McRae Verified
| New Atlas Verified
A synthetic opioid up to 10 times stronger than fentanyl is attracting attention as an emerging global threat, having been officially tied to more than 40 fatal overdoses over the past two years in the US alone. That figure is likely to be far greater, with authorities and researchers finding themselves in the dark on just how widespread the use of the compound cychlorphine may already be.
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