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They detected and magnetically controlled a non-Ohmic conduction termed the second-order Hall effect, where voltage responds orthogonally and quadratically to the applied electric current.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

It is the smallest known pattern that, once launched, grows quadratically to cover the grid of a stable live cell population of density 1/2.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2021

To our knowledge, there is no way to explain why the hybrid genetic background is “sensitized” at a rate that increases quadratically with divergence time unless one invokes negative epistatic interactions in hybrids.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 15, 2011