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Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

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Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

China has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we ...

To explore how spin systems behave collectively, the researchers coupled a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in ...

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