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Fermilab seeks new boss after Lia Merminga resigns as director
Lia Merminga has resigned as Fermilab director after a turbulent few years at the lab
Antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4 is spotted at CERN
Observation backs up the statistical hadronization model
Altermagnets imaged at the nanoscale
Study provides insights into the nature of this recently-discovered class of magnetism
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Sun-like stars produce ‘superflares’ about once a century
Highly energetic events happen much more often than previously thought, say astronomers
Solid-state nuclear clocks brought closer by physical vapour deposition
Fabrication technique reduces amount of expensive isotope needed
New method recycles quantum dots used in microscopic lasers
Expensive and sometimes toxic elements can be reused in new devices
Entanglement entropy in protons affects high-energy collisions, calculations reveal
Experimental data back-up importance of entanglement
Cross-linked polymer is both stiff and stretchy
Researchers have succeeded in combining two usually incompatible properties for the first time
Solar wind squashed Uranus’s magnetosphere during Voyager 2 flyby
New data analysis reveals that some of our understanding of the ice giant Uranus may be false
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