A team of physicists has discovered that virtual charges, which exist only during brief interactions with light, play a critical role in ultrafast material responses. Using attosecond pulses on ...

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Streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video will no longer be permitted to raise the volume on advertisements in California, a move that could inspire other states to take up ...

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Chalmers researchers have developed a simple, light-based platform to study the mysterious “invisible glue” that binds materials at the nanoscale. Gold flakes floating in salt water reveal how quantum ...

A new computational method now makes it possible to calculate the forces between large molecules with unprecedented accuracy.

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