Newton proved that white light was made of all the colours of rainbow by recombining the spectrum. He used a second prism and ...

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Researchers led by a team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have identified biological markers that appear in ...

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Researchers from Drexel University who discovered a versatile type of two-dimensional conductive nanomaterial, called a MXene ...

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Men begin developing coronary heart disease — which can lead to heart attacks — years earlier than women, with differences emerging as early as the mid-30s, according to a large, long-term ...

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