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The device, described in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, generates phonons—a quantum mechanical description of ...
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shares what might happen to our atoms in death, comparing burial and cremation.
A repurposed reagent can stereoselectively insert nitrogen into C–H bonds, even those unactivated by nearby functional groups ...