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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan ...

Technical University of Braunschweig, and the University of Delaware achieved new insight into the inner structure of the ...

Inside Michigan Tech's Aging, Cognition and Action Lab, space debris rains down on a screen as players scramble to deflect it ...

Discover why the witec360 Raman microscope is considered the gold standard for correlative microscopy and nanoscale imaging.

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NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point ...

Shapiro steps – a series of abrupt jumps in the voltage–current characteristic of a Josephson junction that is exposed to microwave radiation – have been observed for the first time in ultracold gases ...

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