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Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze. Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the room, even that is practically too complicated. After it leaves your hand, the ball ...

Researchers at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain have developed a new, simple, one-pot method to make highly conductive metal-organic ultrathin films that are both flexible and mechanically ...

First proposed over thirty years ago, negative refractive index materials bend light in the opposite direction to ordinary materials. However, they were not demonstrated experimentally until 2000.