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At the heart of a new class of reconfigurable smart materials lies the Magbot—a coin-sized, cylindrical micro-robot designed ...

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Put a small crowd of people in an open space and ask them to walk around, and something odd happens. They do not move as randomly as you might think. Again and again, in experiments in Spain and Japan ...

Physicists have long suspected that a peculiar quantum state lurks inside a class of materials known as kagome metals, but ...

From Spain to Japan, experiments have repeatedly shown a left-turn bias, but exact mechanic ‘is still an open question’ ...