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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation – creating an “impossible”, strange state between the two mutually ...

Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – including cancers. If the radiation is delivered precisely to where cancer ...

Knowable Magazine reports solid-state batteries promise improved EV performance with faster charging and longer ranges, but ...

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New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

The discovery of two diamonds originating from the depths of the Earth's mantle reveals a chemical coexistence that ...

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