electron
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Positronium is a short-lived, two-body system made up of an electron and a positron bound together and orbiting a shared center of mass.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
They used an unusual property of transmission electron microscopes to recreate the process.
From Science Daily • Apr. 20, 2026
This produced a flow of orbital angular momentum, which the team named the orbital Seebeck effect, drawing inspiration from the spin Seebeck effect that influences electron spin.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
Tokyo electron rallied 5% in Japan; its U.S.-listed peers gained premarket.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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