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height="138" alt="Illustration depicts two bilayers (two double layers) of graphene" typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20231006130306/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/10/twisted-science-nist-researchers-find-new-quantum-ruler-explore-exotic"><span property="schema:name">Twisted Science: NIST Researchers Find a New Quantum Ruler to Explore Exotic Matter</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2023-10-05T12:00:00Z">October 5, 2023</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon known as graphene has remarkable properties on its own, but things can get even more interesting when you stack up multiple sheets. When two or more overlying sheets of graphene are slightly misaligned — twisted at certain angles relative to each other — they take </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/news/2023/09/new-nist-method-can-better-identify-sneaky-sugars-viruses-spiky-weapons" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser nist-teaser--featured"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20231006130306/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/09/new-nist-method-can-better-identify-sneaky-sugars-viruses-spiky-weapons" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20231006130306im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/220_x_220_limit/public/images/2023/09/27/Covid-Glucose.png?itok=ttfaSkyq" width="220" height="147" alt="A close-up of a virus particle shows spikes protruding from the particle's surface and blobby sugars that cling to the spikes." typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20231006130306/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/09/new-nist-method-can-better-identify-sneaky-sugars-viruses-spiky-weapons"><span property="schema:name">New NIST Method Can Better Identify Sneaky Sugars on Viruses’ Spiky Weapons</span> </a></h3> <div class="nist-teaser__date"> <div class="daterange"><time datetime="2023-09-28T12:00:00Z">September 28, 2023</time> </div> </div> </header> <div class="nist-teaser__content"> <div property="schema:text" class="text-with-summary"> A better picture of the sugars can increase our understanding of how humans get infected by the virus behind COVID-19 and other pathogens. </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div> <article role="article" about="/news-events/news/2023/09/new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-better-quantum" typeof="schema:Article" class="nist-teaser nist-teaser--featured"> <div class="nist-teaser__image"> <div class="entity-reference"> <a href="/web/20231006130306/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/09/new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-better-quantum" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/web/20231006130306im_/https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/styles/220_x_220_limit/public/images/2023/09/22/Rey_1D-Quantum-enhanced-sensing-NIST-web.jpg?itok=VL6gVMi3" width="185" height="220" alt="Illustration of a pair of tweezers surrounding a beam of light that illuminates a line of atoms, each with an analog clock face in the center and an up and down arrow pointing through it." typeof="foaf:Image"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="nist-teaser__content-wrapper"> <header> <h3 class="nist-teaser__title"><a href="/web/20231006130306/https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/09/new-spin-squeezing-techniques-let-atoms-work-together-better-quantum"><span property="schema:name">New Spin-Squeezing Techniques Let Atoms Work Together for Better Quantum Measurements</span> 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