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Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots

42 points by PaulHoule

by pertinhower

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Yes, but if a chicken and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long would it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds off a dill pickle?

by bigiain

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I skimmed through the article looking for pictures of trees with laser beams shooting out in every direction. Much disappoint.

by nick238

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Am I having a stroke? Reading the title makes my head hurt.

by gnatman

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sounds like a Brian Jacques superweapon

by westurner

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Would this work on peanuts?
"Near-Field Optical Nanopatterning of Graphene" (2025) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smsc.202500184 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45623301
Why are they random lasers?
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949800 :
> "Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19745 ; graphite / graphene optical cavity
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922581 :
> "Grover's algorithm to efficiently prepare quantum states in optical cavity QED" (2025) https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grover-algorithm-efficiently-q...:
>> "Deterministic carving of quantum states with Grover's algorithm" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/s3vs-xz7w

by chaos0815

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first laser people have lethal allergies against...

by kazinator

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I just want to know: is the peanut okay?