Developing high-density neutron shielding material using surfactant-stabilized boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT).

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Researchers at Fudan University have achieved a breakthrough by fabricating the first Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) ...

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Google Project Suncatcher is a new research moonshot to one day scale machine learning in space. Working backward from this potential future, they are ...