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Taking Measure

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Sheng Ran

Sheng Ran is currently a postdoctoral researcher at NIST and the University of Maryland. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics at Iowa State University. Besides doing research in quantum materials, he is also a meditation instructor.

Unboxing a New Spin-Triplet Superconductor

November 19, 2019

Nature often reveals itself in surprising ways, so scientists, who study nature, have a lot of opportunities to be surprised. Over the past year and a half, I

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