All-optical control of antiferromagnetic domains via an inverse optical magnetoelectric effect
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Controllable hydro-thermoelastic heat transport in ultrathin semiconductors at room temperature
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Scientists build intense light beams using ‘Einstein’s flying mirror’
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast in the UK has demonstrated…
Does China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 computer herald the age of quantum supremacy?
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Strange particles in one dimension could rewrite quantum physics
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Dark Matter May Have Left Its Fingerprint in a Gravitational Wave.
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Scientists Just Measured an Energy Pulse Smaller Than a Trillionth of a Billionth of a Joule
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Chinese scientists activate a magnet 700,000 times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field, and the question is what research needs such extreme power
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Did Scientists Just Find the First Stars? A Troubling Cosmic Clue Emerges
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