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Amethyst is a purple quartz that has been used for centuries ... it loves enticing you to look deep. It's a crystal that ...

Quartz is a richly featured, open source job scheduling library that can be integrated within virtually any Java application - from the smallest stand-alone application to the largest e-commerce ...

Creating photonic time crystals for visible light has long been challenging due to the need for extremely rapid yet simultaneously large-amplitude variation of material properties. To date, the ...

Breakthrough in photonic time crystals could change how we use and control light The new discovery could dramatically enhance technologies like lasers, sensors and optical computing in the near ...

The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers and Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China ...

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It’s a nifty trick of geology that’s captured three phases of matter, with a solid exterior, liquid middle, and even a gas bubble to boot, all contained within rock crystal quartz. Liquid ...

For example, particles can be in several places at once, or they can be in a quantum superposition – meaning in several states ... What makes crystals so suitable for these experiments is the fact ...

In the scheme by Farhan Hanif at University College London and his collaborators, a nanometre-scale crystal would be put temporarily into ‘quantum superposition’ — meaning that it is in two ...

In 2018, she pinned her paper poppies with an enamel and crystal poppy brooch thought to be a special edition commemorating the contributions of women during the First World War. Crystal ...