Yearly Archives: 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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