Closing in on neutron stars
Astronomers have measured the magnetic field of an isolated neutron star for the first time
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Renaissance pottery comes under the microscope
Italian physicists have found similarities between 500-year-old ceramics and modern metal-glass composites
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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
