Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

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Researchers have developed a magnetic-controlled “dream battery” system that provides four times the energy storage capacity ...

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Researchers have developed a powerful computational framework that shows how carefully optimized nanotube shapes can amplify ...

The number of AI inference chip startups in the world is gross – literally gross, as in a dozen dozens. But there is only one ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

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