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An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University has discovered a highly efficient mechanism for shaking ...

Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy and heat of today’s silicon-based chips. As ...

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Led by researchers at Lancaster University, the international team showed that subtle electronic effects can greatly amplify ...

Like sailors and spelunkers, physicists know the power of a sturdy knot. Some physicists have tied their hopes for a new generation of data storage to minuscule knotlike structures called skyrmions, ...

Birds are the best-known example of creatures able to sense magnetic fields and to use them for orientation and navigation. Less well known are the magneto-sensing abilities of American cockroaches, ...

Spin flips: physicists have magnetized water by spinning it at high speeds. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Inna Bigun) Physicists in the US have shown that rotating matter at high speeds can magnetize atomic ...

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