Monthly Archives: June 2020

India bans almost 60 Chinese apps, including TikTok

India’s government on Monday banned nearly 60 Chinese mobile apps, including TikTok, citing national security concerns, part of the largest eye-for-eye retaliation developing between countries after their armies clashed earlier this year. month. The move comes after a deadly clash between the Chinese and Indian military along their shared and …

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Supreme Court rejects environmentalists’ challenge of border wall

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from a coalition of environmental groups that rejected the Trump administration’s construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The groups, led by the Center for Biological Diversity, challenged a 1996 law that gives the president authority to combat illegal …

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The team develops a method to trap elusive electrons

Credit: Aalto University Graphene’s unique two-dimensional structure means that electrons travel through it differently than in most other materials. One consequence of this unique transport is that applying a voltage does not stop the electrons as it does in most other materials. This is a problem, because to make useful …

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