Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A girl on the trolley drops a bright red ball. To her ...

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Professor Tiziana DiMatteo's research is featured in Quanta Magazine's August 23, 2022 article by Thomas Lewton, "What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key". She was asked to ...

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Quanta Therapeutics, a privately-held clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company leading the development of innovative, oral therapeutics for RAS-driven cancers, announced progress across its pipeline ...

Buoyed by their impressive performance, the companies are busy expanding into new products and places. Contract manufacturers ...

Firefighters in southern California are battling the Palisades and Eaton Fires, which have killed at least 25 people, burning ...