Cryptography breaks 100 km barrier
UK researchers describe a record-breaking ‘unhackable’ link.
Water reaches new depths
Swiss geophysicists have found evidence for water deep inside the Earth’s upper mantle
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‘Gecko tape’ sticks with polymer fibres
Physicists have made adhesive tape that does not rely on glue
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Hydrogen goes universal
The electronic properties of hydrogen are similar in many different materials
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Insects stay cool with thermoelectricity
Israeli researchers have found the first natural heat pump in a living creature
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Mars Express takes off
The European Space Agency’s mission has been successfully launched
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New mass for the electron, in theory
Theorists are leading experimentalists in a friendly race to find the mass of the electron
Ripples in a superconducting tidal pool
Images of a cuprate superconductor could shed light on high-temperature superconductivity
Superconducting wire turns to electrical power
Engineers and entrepreneurs are keen to transform the properties of magnesium diboride into profit
Big break for charge symmetry
Why are neutrons and protons different?
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