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On a physical level, a transistor’s internal functioning is very complex, but, in practice, using it in some simple experiments is quite easy and affordable for everyone. A transistor allows to create ...
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J.J. Thompson Discovered the Electron — And Unknowingly Electrified Science Forever
By the late 1800s, the scientific world was buzzing with questions about electricity and light. Several researchers were ...
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Quantum Computing’s Surprising Boundary: When Physics Says “No”
While a quantum computer could factor a 2048-bit RSA key in less than a week with fewer than a million qubits, there are problems so intractable that even the most advanced quantum hardware would fail ...
Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...
The geometry of space, where physical laws unfold, may also hold answers to some of the deepest questions in fundamental ...
Three quantum physicists have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments with entangled photons, in which particles of light become inextricably linked. Such experiments have laid the ...
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