Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
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Ultrafast, reconfigurable all-optical beam steering and spatial light modulation
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Two-dimensional Dirac half-metallic Cr2C sheets with a clean surface and high stability
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Europe’s first superconducting X-ray spectrometer uses 248 sensors
Researchers in Germany have brought Europe’s first and only superconducting TES-array X-ray spectrometer online at the BESSY II…
String-sliding vibrational modes govern the boson peak and phonon anomalies in amorphous materials
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Optical multistability in a compact microcavity enabled by near-exceptional coupling
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Excitonic spin torque in a magnetic semiconductor
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UV and thermally stable hole-selective contacts with enhanced assembly density for inverted perovskite solar cells
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Scientists Crack Key Mystery Behind High-Temperature Superconductors
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Scientists Are Turning Ocean Trash Into Roads – and It’s Actually Working
Researchers in Hawaii are exploring an innovative way to turn discarded fishing nets and household plastic waste into…
Probing the quantum metric of 3D topological insulators
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Goodbye Plastic? Scientists Create New Supermaterial That Could Transform Modern Manufacturing
A new study in Nature Communications reports the development of an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose…