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New York — At the Museum of Illusions in New York City, around every corner is a wonder for the eyes. There's a vase that's a face, art that moves with you, and a room that seems to go on forever.

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At Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Xiaomi showed WIRED a new concept phone with a detachable lens that connects magnetically and transfers power and data. (The brand hosted WIRED at its media ...

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Abstract: Abuse of amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) is increased in Japan. Most ATS has optical isomers and their stimulatory effects are different between optical active forms and racemic form. We ...

THE odour differences of optical isomers have been reviewed by Naves 1. To date, the most that has been observed is a slight difference in the strength or ‘note’, and this has often disappeared when ...