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Newswise — We all learned that electricity is caused by electrons moving in a metal. Each electron carries a discrete charge. The picture is more complicated because electrons repel each other. Any ...

Strange metals defy the 60-year-old understanding of electric current as a flow of discrete charges. (Nanowerk News) We all learned that electricity is caused by electrons moving in a metal. Each ...