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The team's experiments showed that the gold-patterned structures substantially increased the amount of heat moving across the gap, achieving heat transfer rates up to four times greater than comparable systems lacking the engineered patterns.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Theobald said studies on male athletes had already linked contact sports with certain brain conditions, but a comparable long-term study "has never been done on women".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Costco’s U.S. comparable sales, adjusted for gasoline, rose 8.7% in May, marking their highest level in over a year.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
The S&P 500’s comparable total return was 11.5% annualized.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
Five times or more bigger than any other Mississippian polity, Cahokia’s population of at least fifteen thousand made it comparable in size to London, but on a landmass without Paris, Cordoba, or Rome.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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