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More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which ...
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An inventor traces the evolution of a single engineering idea, from Michael Faraday’s first motors to levitating trains ...
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Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...