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Introducing a new computational method that predicts the electronic properties of semiconductors more accurately, including ...

Professor Andrew Archer has won the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Shephard Prize 2026 in recognition of his ...

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Consciousness is the ultimate question of existence. Nothing is more essential than our experience. Yet we have no consensus, and perhaps no clue, about what it actually is. The trouble, in part, is ...

aDepartment of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands ...