macroscopic
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This compact book weaves together topics including the microscopic quantum tunneling required for nuclear fusion and the macroscopic geometry of spacetime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
“Chemotherapy is much more effective at eradicating minimal disease than it is macroscopic disease that you can already see on imaging.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
This switching changes the material's macroscopic electrical properties and reverses which direction has easier electrical flow, a property known as the diode effect, where current flows more easily in one direction than the other.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025
Quantum metals are metals where quantum effects -- behaviors that normally only matter at atomic scales -- become powerful enough to control the metal's macroscopic electrical properties.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025
The mechanism by which genes specify macroscopic anatomical features—limbs, organs, and structures—was the first to be deciphered.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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