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Do you want to avoid swelling in your next home? Check out these 12 features before renting or purchasing
Sarah Robertson, Nicola Willand, Ralph Horn, Trives Moore, Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hot Australia with the warmest spring heels on record, is baking another burnt summer. The national heat wave contributed to the second warmest January on record. This week, hot, dry, windy weather has been swept across the country again. Finding a home to stay cool in this…
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Flexible metafiber devices can generate optical skyrmions with designer topological textures and subwavelength features
Figure 1: Artistic image of a metafiber producing optical skyrmions with configurable topological textures. Credit: Yuan Meng, Tiantian He, Yijie Shen, Qirong Xiao Skyrmions are known for their complex spin configurations and have fascinated researchers as topological quasiparticles with great potential in data storage and information technology. Recently, optical skyrmions, the light-based counterpart of these quasiparticles, have emerged as a…
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