Iron screws and other so-called ferromagnetic materials are made up of atoms with electrons that act like little magnets. Normally,…
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THE fans roar into life, pumping air upwards at 260 kilometres per hour. Decked out in a baggy blue jumpsuit,…
Read More »Researchers at Osaka University’s Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (SANKEN) used the shortcuts to the adiabaticity (STA) method to…
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Read More »Scientists are a step closer to unravelling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity…
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Read More »An optical cavity like this could be used in a quantum engine Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics A single…
Read More »If the fractional quantum Hall regime were a series of highways, these highways would have either two or four lanes.…
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