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MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that ...

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