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For decades, chemists working on electronic materials have treated molecular decomposition as the enemy—a process to be suppressed with every ...

Tuberculosis has quietly reclaimed a title no pathogen should want: the world's deadliest infectious disease. According to the World Health ...

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Physicists have, for the first time, directly imaged the exotic edge currents that race along the boundary of zirconium pentatelluride, ...

Researchers have engineered a molecular-level solution to one of the most stubborn efficiency bottlenecks in perovskite solar technology, achieving a ...

Physicists have demonstrated a new type of extremely sensitive charge detector built on the quantum Hall effect, capable of resolving ...

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