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microscopic

[mahy-kruh-skop-ik] / ˌmaɪ krəˈskɒp ɪk /


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According to the researchers, the effect emerges because the microscopic structures and the material's natural energy waves work together.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

To accomplish this, the researchers turned to metamaterials, engineered materials that contain microscopic repeating structures designed to interact with energy in highly controlled ways.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Interpreted this way, the Einstein–Rosen bridge acts as a mirror in spacetime: a connection between two microscopic arrows of time.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Before taking off, he was informed that the first microscopic quantity of U-235 had been separated from natural uranium in the thirty-seven-inch cyclotron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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