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Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

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Scientists used a 0.02-second, 3 000 C degrees light flash to create efficient hydrogen catalysts, cutting energy use a ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by using a titanium beam to irradiate a sample, could point toward the ...

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