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feature | carbon flatland
Carbon
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S
ome physicists spend their
days exploring the three
dimensions of space, the four
dimensions of spacetime or
even the 11 dimensions of something
called M-theory. Other researchers are
content with just two.
But fewer dimensions doesn't mean
lessscience.Forsevenyears,researchers
have been enjoying a two-dimensional
playgroundofnewphysicsprovidedbya
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