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UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop ...

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As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

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Using the Frontier supercomputer, researchers have cracked a major challenge in nuclear physics: accurately predicting ...

They applied the 2017 Nobel Prize-winning 3D structural analysis method for protein particles to solve a long-standing ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zwitterions are strange molecules that are positive and negative at once. Sydney scientists are harnessing zwitterions to improve ...