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A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I have found in a new research project. The way that intense X-rays are ...

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Nanotechnology has significantly reshaped modern science. Now, researchers can manipulate matter at atomic and molecular scales. Among the many forms of nanomaterials, zero-dimensional nanomaterials ...

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What can the surface activity on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, teach scientists about its subsurface ocean? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a ...