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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...

Auburn scientists have designed new materials that manipulate free electrons to unlock groundbreaking applications. These ...

Abstract The dynamics of numerous physical systems, such as spins and qubits, can be described as a series of rotation operations, i.e., walks in the ...