Your next cooler will be made of wobbly jiggling atoms
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Your next cooler will be made of wobbly jiggling atoms

Soft, jiggling atoms can be the key to dramatically better cooling by disrupting heat flow.

A Tiny Flaw Summons Superconductors' Loudest Quantum Ghosts
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A Tiny Flaw Summons Superconductors' Loudest Quantum Ghosts

A single impurity near a boundary summons detectable quantum interference patterns from particle-hole pairs in superconductors.

Carbon Atoms Grow Hands And Flip Their Quantum Magnets
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Carbon Atoms Grow Hands And Flip Their Quantum Magnets

Carbon layers can flip their magnetic orientation and become "handed" superconductors.

Glass-like film conducts power and sharply bends visible light
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Glass-like film conducts power and sharply bends visible light

A novel metal sulfonitride film conducts electricity while also bending visible light with a remarkably high refractive index.

Glass-like film conducts power and sharply bends visible light
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Glass-like film conducts power and sharply bends visible light

This new metal sulfonitride film blends transparency with electrical conductivity, a rare combination for advanced electronics.

Tiny Light Switch Revolutionizes Data, Sips Power
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Tiny Light Switch Revolutionizes Data, Sips Power

A novel optical switch uses light's subtle nonlinearities to control data flow with unprecedented energy efficiency.

Electric Toasters for Your Data Make Storage Tiny
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Electric Toasters for Your Data Make Storage Tiny

New research uses targeted heating to make magnetic data storage significantly denser and more efficient.

Scientists found a disco ball to clear your body's party
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Scientists found a disco ball to clear your body's party

Researchers developed a novel sensor that bypasses the electrical noise in bodily fluids to detect disease markers.

Forget the Furnace, AI Chats Conjure Next-Gen Super-Metals
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Forget the Furnace, AI Chats Conjure Next-Gen Super-Metals

AI chatbots are accelerating the discovery of next-generation super-metals by navigating complex alloy combinations.

Electrons Just Found Their Favorite Double Date Night
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Electrons Just Found Their Favorite Double Date Night

Electrons are now known to superconduct in groups of four, a departure from the long-held theory of pairs.

Electrons Just Found Their Favorite Double Date Night
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Electrons Just Found Their Favorite Double Date Night

Electrons can now superconduct in groups of four, opening new possibilities for quantum technologies.

Twisted Atoms Unleash a Giant Leap for Computer Memory
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Twisted Atoms Unleash a Giant Leap for Computer Memory

Strain physically reorients electron paths in FePS₃, enabling nonvolatile memory with extreme conductivity changes.