Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

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A team of physicists developed a new tool that can solve complex quantum problems on consumer-grade computers.

Discover how Bruker and the University of Manchester joined forces to discover more on the dynamics of complex protein.

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