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A high-resolution image of the magnetic field in the El Gordo cluster, including the Chandra X-ray image (blue part of the image), the NASA JWST infrared image (background galaxies of the image), and ...

Optical trapping is a powerful tool for manipulating microscopic particles, but conventional approaches often suffer from limited trapping range and ...

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