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A wave of recent research is forcing scientists to confront an uncomfortable reality: the air filling homes, offices, and city streets carries invisible plastic particles and ultrafine pollutants that ...

Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

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