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More accurate navigation systems and improved wireless communications may not come from traditional electronics, but rather from atoms. Researchers at Penn State and the National Institute of ...

Air conditioning is increasingly the go-to when heat waves strike. However, not only does this lead to more emissions, it ...

We speak to some of the people who are crafting bold instruments and effects processors inspired by the fundamental laws of ...

Physicists in China have observed five phases in localization physics within a single quantum system. Using an advanced ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Teachers, students and schools say the A-level maths paper represented a 'significant increase in difficulty compared with previous years' England's exam regulator Ofqual says it is "closely ...

England's exam regulator Ofqual says it is "closely monitoring" the marking of an A-level maths paper which students and parents say felt "unfair". More than 20,000 people have signed a petition ...

The Electricity Authority Te Mana Hiko (Authority) says its decision to amend the Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 to introduce non-discrimination obligations (NDOs), released today, will ...

A-level students in several countries, including the UK, have had their exam papers voided after it emerged they had been leaked online. Cambridge International Education, the exam board affected, ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...