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Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.

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In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant milestone in low-carbon chemical conversion. In their recent publication in ...

Scientists observed electron swirls in tantalum arsenide, revealing quantum vortex structures in momentum space.

The ASU team set out to develop the first compact X-ray free electron laser, or CXFEL. A dramatically smaller and less ...

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Rinke Wijngaarden, a retired physicist previously at the Free University of Amsterdam, has followed the authors’ assertions .

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