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How Atoms Could Detect Gravitational Waves
Scientists propose a radical new method to sense gravitational waves by tracking how they shift the light atoms emit, potentially shrinking detectors...
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Scientists propose a radical new method to sense gravitational waves by tracking how they shift the light atoms emit, potentially shrinking detectors...
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Memristors are the long-theorized fourth fundamental circuit element that can store data and compute simultaneously. A recent breakthrough in extreme-...
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Quantum decoherence is the process by which qubits lose their quantum properties through environmental interaction, and it remains the single biggest...
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Quasicrystals are materials with atoms arranged in ordered but never-repeating patterns, defying the rules of classical crystallography. From a ridicu...
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Extreme ultraviolet lithography uses plasma hotter than the sun to print the world's most advanced chips, and only one company on Earth can build the...
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Stellar archaeology uses spectroscopy and chemical analysis to read the composition of ancient stars, unlocking secrets about the earliest era of the...
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Mars dust devils and storms generate static electricity strong enough to spark, reshaping the planet's chemistry and posing challenges for future miss...
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The Migdal effect is a quantum phenomenon where a recoiling atomic nucleus ejects an electron, amplifying faint signals that could reveal lightweight...
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The Moon's hidden hemisphere is rugged, crater-scarred, and almost devoid of the dark plains visible from Earth. The explanation traces back to the Mo...
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Gas giant exoplanets orbiting tiny red dwarf stars defy the leading models of planet formation. Here is how these so-called forbidden planets challeng...
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The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is Earth's most powerful ocean current, carrying 135 times more water than all the world's rivers combined. It regul...
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Palimpsests — manuscripts scraped clean and rewritten centuries ago — hide lost works by history's greatest minds. Modern imaging technologies, from m...
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