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Physicists find new way to measure properties of a material’s surface layer

Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have developed a new technique that can measure the properties of the topmost atomic layer of...

Twitter cut more than 950 California employees after Elon Musk took over, WARN notice shows

The Twitter profile page belonging to Elon Musk is seen on an Apple iPhone mobile phone.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAfter Tesla and SpaceX...

Plant fibers for sustainable devices: Research into thermal properties of cellulose nanofibers yields surprising results

Plant-derived materials such as cellulose often exhibit thermally insulating properties. A new material made from nanoscale cellulose fibers shows the reverse, high thermal conductivity....

Novel navigation strategies for microscopic swimmers

Autonomous optimal navigation of microswimmers is in fact possible, as researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) showed. In contrast...

Some everyday materials have memories, and now they can be erased: News study demonstrates how to read, write, and erase memory of previous deformation...

Some solid materials have a memory of how they have previously been stretched out, which impacts how they respond to these kinds of deformations...

Expect to pay even more for Apple’s new high-end iPhones this year

A customers holds the new green colour Apple iPhone 13 pro shortly after it went on sale inside the Apple Store on 5th Avenue...

Video game giants had a miserable second quarter as the pandemic gaming boom hits a wall

A gamer plays on Sony's Playstation 5 console at his home in Seoul.Yelim Lee | AFP via Getty ImagesThe giants of the video game...

Microsoft misses estimates but stock up 5% on rosy guidance

Microsoft shares rose 5% in extended trading on Tuesday after the software maker issued a rosy income forecast for the year ahead, despite issuing...

Halos and dark matter: A recipe for discovery: No, scientists still don’t know what dark matter is. But MSU scientists helped uncover new physics...

About three years ago, Wolfgang "Wolfi" Mittig and Yassid Ayyad went looking for the universe's missing mass, better known as dark matter, in the...

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