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From vibranium to unobtainium: The periodic table of made-up stuff
Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, ...
The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these crucial elements come from ...
Florida State University researchers have created a new crystalline material with unusual magnetic patterns that could be ...
Boron, a chemical element next to carbon in the periodic table, is known for its unique ability to form complex bond networks. Unlike carbon, which typically bonds with two or three neighboring atoms, ...
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