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At first glance, glass and crystal seem identical — both are transparent, shiny, and used to make cups, vases, and chandeliers. But the difference lies in what they’re made of and how they sound, ...

Author Oleg Sidletskiy Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Crystal Growth Technology Department at the Institute of Scintillation Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of ...

IF YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT of the Nobel prize in physics—for developments in quantum mechanics that helped give birth to quantum computers—was greeted with general bafflement, today Sweden’s Royal ...

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