Some materials let electricity pass through them easily. These materials are known as electrical conductors. Metal is used in plugs to allow electricity to transfer from the wall socket ...

Scientists have developed a hybrid material that switches between conducting and insulating states while maintaining ...

Researchers at Osaka University in Suita, Japan, have devised a novel way to improve the performance of electronic devices. The study, published in ACS Applied Electronic ...

Firefighters from Portage and other departments battled two wildfires just outside the city for several hours on Thursday.

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Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts electricity or not. Analysing such quantum states has now revealed that there ...

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"This opens up a whole new perspective on technologically highly interesting classes of materials and shows us that there is more to materials science between electrical conductors and insulators ...

New regulatory filing shows power line surges, problems during high winds, including at a transmission tower near start of ...