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When two graphene layers are twisted at a ‘magic angle’, their electrons can behave as both heavy and light particles, depending on momentum. Hongyun Zhang is in the Department of Physics, Tsinghua ...

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Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every galaxy—by a factor of five. We call it dark matter, and for decades, the standard, ...

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