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How huge black holes sprouted just after the Big Bang

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Room-temperature spin injection across a chiral perovskite/III–V interface

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Graphene combines computer logic and memory in a single device

Nature, Published online: 19 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01642-z A sheet of graphene sandwiched between electrolytes can host independently tunable proton and

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Control of proton transport and hydrogenation in double-gated graphene

Device fabrication Apertures 10 µm in diameter were etched in silicon nitride substrates (500 nm SiNx) using photolithography, wet etching and reactive

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How farming could become the ultimate climate-change tool

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‘Smart’ fabric protects against heat of city streets

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An alternative broad-specificity pathway for glycan breakdown in bacteria

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Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

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Sex organs sense vibrations through specialized touch neurons

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Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy

Semantic entropy as a strategy for overcoming confabulation builds on probabilistic tools for uncertainty estimation. It can be applied directly