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An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

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Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

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Scientists have upended long-held assumptions about thermal conductivity, revealing that boron arsenide crystals can conduct heat even better than diamond. Researchers at the University of Houston ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...