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A video of a unique optical phenomenon known as a "glory" spotted from a plane has gone viral on TikTok. Heather Reedy, a 37-year-old registered nurse based in Virginia, spotted the mesmerizing ...

Nanodisk of MoS2 preserves “broken inverse symmetry” to maintain optical nonlinearity. The researchers at the Department of ...

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