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In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

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 ...

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