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A physicist combined two crystals that normally repel each other — Then realized solar panels may be built the wrong way
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Physicists discover a heavy cousin of the proton at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
Scientists from The University of Manchester have played a key role in identifying a previously unknown subatomic particle…
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For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of the universe’s most powerful magnets, or…
Optically detected nuclear magnetic resonance of coherent spins in a molecular complex
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Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it
Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head,…
MIT scientists finally see hidden quantum “jiggling” inside superconductors
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Why Scientists Are Calling This Laser Experiment a Historic First
For decades, scientists studying laser-assisted electron scattering, a technique known as LAES, have relied exclusively on linearly polarized…
Bistable superlattice switching in a quantum spin Hall insulator
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