The days of computer chips being mere pieces of tech are long gone. Now, they are very much weapons. Weapons of innovation, wealth, control, and power. That's why all the superpower nations are ...

The brown band on the back of the old cards was magnetic tape, in the same sense that a cassette was magnetic tape, and it worked the same way: tiny regions magnetised in one direction or the other, ...

There are a handful of truly monumental collective achievements in our history: Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, and perhaps, if we’re being generous, the Roman aqueducts.

The researchers also incorporated a metallic layer that screens unwanted electric fields, preventing them from destabilizing the film’s polarization. With both effects controlled, bismuth ferrite ...