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Drawing the scattering of plane waves by homogeneous spheres in Mie theory, material lets photons at gigahertz frequencies ...

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Indian American UB professor recognized for his “transformative contributions” through the development of advanced coated ...

Austrian scientists have discovered why UTe2 regains superconductivity under magnetic fields as high as 70 Tesla.

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Since humans started using metals, metallurgists and smiths have tweaked and controlled the properties of their materials ...

Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with a resistance of zero. In so-called conventional superconductors, this occurs at low temperatures when electrons become bound into pairs, ...

Researchers at Yale, Google, and the University of California-Santa Barbara have created a device that simulates the quantum "tunneling" behavior of protons that occurs in chemistry, a process so ...

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN uses superconducting magnets to accelerate and direct a particle beam. Discovery of superconductors that work at (or close to) room temperatures would represent a ...