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Maternal heart rate variability during pregnancy could act as a digital biomarker to predict the likely delivery date
Ultracold four-atom molecules are bound by electric dipole moments
New technique could shed light on high-temperature superconductivity
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Research updates
Metal-free graphene quantum dots show potential for cancer treatment
A metal-free nanozyme based on graphene quantum dots inhibits tumour growth in mice with no off-target toxicity
Quieter quantum device measures electrical current
Noise reduction in Josephson junctions could be used in metrology standard
Physicists observe false vacuum decay in a ferromagnetic superfluid
First experimental evidence of true vacuum “bubbles” could have implications for cosmology as well as condensed-matter physics
Collapsible helix antenna could aid disaster recovery
New device switches between two operating modes as it is extended and contracted and might also be deployed in space
New positron source could give lepton colliders a boost
High-temperature superconductor solenoid focuses antiparticles
Heavy fermions appear in a layered intermetallic crystal
New two-dimensional compound could be used to study interactions that produce unconventional superconductivity and related quantum phenomena
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