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Just 15 days left for deal to save ailing Alitalia airline
Concern was mounting in Italy on Monday over the fate of the troubled national airline Alitalia,…
Europe looks to remold internet with new copyright rules
The European Union has approved a copyright rule that aims to give more protection to artists…
UK proposes banning social media ‘likes’ for children
Britain's privacy regulator wants to stop kids from being able to "like" posts on Facebook and…
Turning silenced cancer genes back into fighters
Working with human colon cancer cells and mice, researchers led by experts at the Johns Hopkins…
The warming Arctic permafrost may be releasing more nitrous oxide than previously thought
About one fourth of the Northern Hemisphere is covered in permafrost. Now, these permanently frozen beds…
A next-generation triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to realize constant current from electrostatic breakdown
Scientists have dedicated intense work in recent years to convert environmental energy into electricity to meet…
Seven common myths about quantum physics
I have been popularising quantum physics, my area of research, for many years now. The general…
Graphene-based foam stays soft and squishy even at super cold temperatures
A team of researchers with members from Nankai University in China and Rice University in the…
NuSTAR Detection of X-Rays Concurrent with Gamma-Rays in the Nova V5855 Sgr
Abstract: We report the first detection of hard (>10 keV) X-ray emission simultaneous with gamma-rays in…