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At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

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Researchers have developed a deep-learning-based surrogate model that dramatically speeds up simulations of nonlinear optical ...

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