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One of President Donald Trump’s final actions in his first administration was a last-ditch attempt to confront the impermanence of a four-year term by leaving his mark on something that could last ...

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Ultra-uniform nanogratings of sub-50-nm periods and near-10-nm groove widths on HOPG can be stably and efficiently fabricated by high-NA focused femtosecond laser irradiation under water immersion.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures ...

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The debate about AI’s impact on consulting tends to swing between two extremes: Some argue that AI will render consultants obsolete; others claim it will only make them more indispensable. Both views ...