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A new Bar-Ilan University study points to a major advance in quantum information processing, demonstrating a way to send, ...

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Researchers have developed a technique for detecting and measuring the concentration of many rare-earth elements in plants, ...

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A terahertz platform built on an achiral gradient metasurface resolves the components, handedness, and mixing ratios of ...

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A thin diamond film encapsulates gold nanoparticles into a reusable SERS substrate that survives acid, abrasion, and months ...