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A fibrous composite foam employs the triboelectric effect and in situ electrical energy dissipation to absorb low-frequency ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

Ideas industry: a new report by the Institute of Physics finds an extra £4.5bn of extra funding for physics “deep tech” ...

Universal boundary that distinguishes effective approximate error correction codes from ineffective ones turns out to be ...

A research team headed up at Seoul National University has pioneered an innovative metasurface-based folded lens system, ...

Gas sensor made from nanoflakes of indium oxide-based materials successfully identifies individuals with lung cancer ...

Another popular method is to bombard nuclei with high-energy electrons, analysing the scattering data to infer structural ...

Ekert said that this statistical codebreaking technique was developed in the 9th century by the Arab polymath Al-Kindi. This ...

Welsh’s ebook is called “ Space Radiation: Astrophysical origins, radiobiological effects and implications for space ...

Researchers in Switzerland have created a mechanical qubit using an acoustic wave resonator, marking a significant step ...