Auroral light is polarized after all
New measurements of the Northern Lights overturn 50 years of conventional wisdom
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Dawn of the memristor
There is a fourth standard circuit element in addition to resistors, capacitors and inductors
Report slams UK’s leading physics funding agency
MPs call for major shake-up at the Science and Technology Facilities Council
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Physicists quantify the ‘coefficient of inefficiency’
The most effective committees have fewer than 20 members
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Synchrotron proves Europeans were not the first painters to use oils
Scientists find Afghan oil paintings that date back hundreds of years before the Renaissance
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‘Buckypaper’ stretches in a strange way
Material’s response to stretching can be finely-tuned by mixing different carbon nanotubes
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Astronomers get clear view of blazar
Black-hole powered jets are created by twisting magnetic fields that drive particles from galactic cores
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Phonons fail to explain high-temperature superconductivity
Electron–phonon interactions can only account for a fraction of superconducting behaviour
Dark matter claims disputed
Flashes of light seen at the DAMA experiment in Italy are not necessarily WIMPs, say physicists
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Graphene transistors cut from ribbons into dots
Transistors made from graphene quantum dots show promise as the next generation of electronics
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