Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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2D or Not 2D: Crystals that open up New Dimensions
Scientists invent a deceptively simple way to build a helter-skelter of atoms
These microscopic butterflies are one of the smallest, lightest and most expensive ones in the world as they partially consist of the novel one atom thick material graphene
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Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
EVERYTHING is made of atoms. To understand this, we’re asked to imagine that the smooth continuous materials around us are each made up of tiny lumps.
Rather than acting like little inert building bricks, each is humming with the energy of existing. Every atom is itself an immense void with even tinier positive and negative charged matter suspended in space, whizzing round each other and changing configuration to give the atom its own particular properties.
The dynamism of the charges moving around and interacting both inside the atom and outside of it defines the ways that charge and energy can move between them, through space, sometimes joining them together in configurations of molecules of infinite variety.
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