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A theoretical understanding of the relationship between the geometrical structure of hollow-core optical fibres and their leakage loss will inspire the design of novel low-loss fibres. Immense progress has been made in recent years to…

"THE SITUATION IS A CALAMITY" Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it had delivered some aid to the capital from Port Sudan, a road journey of about 800km. Some 330,000 Sudanese have also been displaced inside Sudan's borders by the war,…

The Current10:59Critters face off in March Mammal MadnessRead transcribed audioIn the real world, a wolverine would probably never meet an emperor penguin in the wild.But in the March Mammal Madness tournament, not only do these magnificent…

WASHINGTON: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chewon Thursday (March 23) faced nearly 6 hours of hostile questioning from the US Congress members over concerns about the Chinese-owned social media giant's potential influence from the Chinese government…

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before US Congress amid growing security concerns and potential Chinese government influence over the company.Chew faced hostile questioning from the House Energy and Commerce Committee as he verbally…

Scientists investigating a compound called "Y-ball" - which belongs to a mysterious class of "strange metals" viewed as centrally important to next-generation quantum materials - have found new ways to probe and understand its behavior. The…

Scientists have found the secret behind a property of solid materials known as ferroelectrics, showing that quasiparticles moving in wave-like patterns among vibrating atoms carry enough heat to turn the material into a thermal switch when…

A group of researchers has identified the key stumbling block of a common solid-state hydrogen material, paving the way for future design guidelines and widespread commercial use. Details of their findings were published in the Journal of…

Wi-Fi 6E and whatever older Wi-Fi standard your router is still clinging on to, aren’t exactly going away anytime soon. But the process for replacing Wi-Fi 6E, the current latest standard with Wi-Fi 7, is already making moving ahead at…

A research team led by faculty members at Wayne State University has discovered that communication between two key memory regions in the brain determines how what we experience becomes part of what we remember, and as these regions mature,…