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Scientist who reported room-temperature superconductivity faces more controversy

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Scientists tested an electron’s response to a magnetic field with extreme accuracy. Why?

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Third source of natural quasicrystals preserves their reputation for violent origins

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The levels of various magnetic particles in roadside dust around Kolkata, in terms of the low-field magnetic susceptibility.

Jadavpur University team builds pollution map based on roadside dust

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Robert Millikan, Georges Lemaître and Albert Einstein, California Institute of Technology, January 1933.

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Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz at work at IBM. Photo: Universität Zürich/YouTube

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The ILL nuclear reactor site where the STEREO experiment is located.

Signs of particle expected to crack decade-old mystery weaken in new data

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File picture of physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974)

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When sunlight passes through the air, atoms and molecules in the atmosphere scatter blue light in all directions, far more than red light.

The sky isn’t just blue – airglow makes it green, yellow and red too

In this 2012 image provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a technician reviews an optic inside the preamplifier support structure at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, was decades in coming, with scientists able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it for the first time.

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