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A new study suggests that crystal defects in diamond may hold the key to scalable quantum interconnects. Connecting large ...

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Findings Solve Decades-Old Mystery About What’s Inside Uranus And Neptune In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a strange form of water that’s simultaneously solid and liquid; oxygen atoms lock into a ...

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Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.