macroscopic

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"The work has allowed us to tie the structures of individual molecules to macroscopic properties of their condensates, really for the first time," Rosen says.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

In the words of the committee, "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit".

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025

Entropy is essentially the number of such microstates consistent with the same macroscopic variables, he deduced.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 28, 2024

The researchers confirmed the robots worked as programmed by varying the temperature and comparing the readouts with the values from a macroscopic thermometer placed in the solution.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2024

The peculiar feature of the mutants, he discovered, was that the essential plan of macroscopic structures was often maintained—only the segment switched its position or identity in the body of the fly.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee