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Scientists working with China’s fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have successfully reached a long-theorized “density-free regime” in fusion
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A new study from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE) and Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin challenges a widely
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plainpicture/Michiru Nakayama Lots of science books will be published over the course of the coming year – tonnes, in fact.