this physicist investigated UFOs and flew over Hiroshima
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Quantum computation for robot posture optimization
Qubit operation and Bloch sphere representation A quantum bit, or qubit, is the fundamental unit of information in…
Unprecedented large-scale aquifer recovery through human intervention
Reversing groundwater depletion across the North China Plain To investigate groundwater recovery in the NCP, we compiled an…
Distributed quantum computing across an optical network link
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Kinetic turbulence drives MHD equilibrium change via 3D reconnection
The 3D helical flux ropes in VEST Two essential magnetic field components, the poloidal and toroidal fields, are…
Quarter- and half-filled quantum Hall states and their topological orders revealed by daughter states in bilayer graphene
Our devices (device 1 and device 2) consist of BLG encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphite…
These genes can have the opposite effects depending on which parent they came from
The effect of a gene can vary greatly — and sometimes be the complete opposite — depending on…
OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak
‘Open-weight’ AI models enable researchers to perform custom training or study how information is represented inside their neural…
Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces
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UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model
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Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene
Palaeomagnetic analysis Oriented block samples of approximately 10 × 10 × 10 cm3 each were carved with a sharp non-magnetic knife from fresh…