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Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

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Abstract: Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely adopted across various domains; however, their potential for malicious use cases, including espionage, illicit trafficking, and unauthorized ...

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Abstract: To explore the anisotropic nature and improve computational efficiency, eigenvalue (EV-) analysis is adopted to implement the transfer matrix method (TMM), abbreviated as EV-TMM, enabling ...

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