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New material to pave the way for more efficient electronic devices
Researchers at the University of Bristol have successfully demonstrated the high thermal conductivity of a new…
Apple removing or restricting apps for controlling screen time
Apple's removal of nearly a dozen apps that help users manage screen time raises questions about…
Google workers protest ‘culture of retaliation’ with sit-in
Google employees staged a sit-in Wednesday to protest what they call a "culture of retaliation" at…
A 3-D reconstruction of the fossil allowed for the description of an entirely new suborder
Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be…
3-D printing of biological tissue
The future of medicine is biological – and scientists hope we will soon be using 3-D-printed…
India prepares for ‘extremely severe’ Bay of Bengal cyclone
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated along India's eastern coast on Thursday as authorities braced…
A leap forward in estimating crop water use
To conserve and manage fresh water, particularly in arid regions such as Saudi Arabia, it is…
LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based…
Microplastics accumulate in hotspots for deep-sea life
Research published earlier in the week reveals that microplastics often accumulate on the deep sea floor…