Movies and television have educated us more than we know. Thanks to detective thrillers, we understand about the drama of "wearing a wire." But a NASA-sponsored technology is paving the way for all of ...

An international research team led by the University of Bayreuth has discovered a metal that combines electrical conductivity with internal polarity. This enables it to exhibit second harmonic ...

THE power of transmitting large electric currents is one of the most characteristic properties of metals, and one to which they owe no insignificant fraction of their industrial importance. If we ...

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