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For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

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Scientists at the Max Born Institute have developed a new soft X-ray instrument that can reveal dynamics of magnetic domains ...

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