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A team of DESY scientists has built a miniature double particle accelerator that can recycle some of the laser energy fed into the system to… Read More »Scientist built Tiny double accelerator that recycles energy
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With a small zap of electricity, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University take an underwater smart glue prototype from sticky to not in seven seconds.… Read More »MTU Engineers zap and unstick underwater smart glue
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