Metallic material breaks 100-year thermal conductivity record
Transition metal nitride conducts heat nearly three times better than copper
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2D materials help spacecraft electronics resist radiation damage
Transistors based on atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides appear particularly robust
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Giant barocaloric cooling effect offers a new route to refrigeration
Environmentally friendly dissolution-based method reduces temperature of water by nearly 27 K in just 20 seconds
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Fluid gears make their debut
New work could promote the development of next-generation machines without mechanical interlocking teeth
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Earthquake-sensing network detects space debris as it falls to Earth
Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere
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Samples from the far side of the Moon shed light on lunar asymmetry
Unusual isotopic ratio in samples brought back by Chang'e-6 reveals clues about the early history of Earth's satellite
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Unusual astronomical event might be a ‘superkilonova’
Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions remain
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Metasurfaces create super-sized neutral atom arrays for quantum computing
Technique lays the groundwork for neutral-atom quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits, say physicists
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Schrödinger cat state sets new size record
Clusters containing thousands of metal atoms obey the laws of quantum mechanics, say physicists
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Interactions between dark matter and neutrinos could resolve a cosmic discrepancy
Finding challenges the standard model of cosmology
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