Atomic swaps allow direct cryptocurrency exchanges between blockchains without third parties. Utilizing smart contracts, atomic swaps automatically execute or cancel trades based on agreed terms ...

Growth outperformed at every capitalization range. Mid- and large-cap growth stocks led U.S. equities higher during the quarter, outperforming small-cap growth stocks, which posted more modest gains.

we mid-table Europeans enjoy a relatively contented existence in what are free and civilised societies. This is the upside perhaps of what has been called Europe’s 21st century “museum” status.

One of Los Angeles’s defining mid-century design companies began at the kitchen table of a young couple living in a new housing tract in Mar Vista. In 1950 Max and Rita Lawrence, enamoured with ...

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic ... the periodic table between silicon and tin, germanium has properties of both metals and nonmetals. Dmitri Mendeleev predicted its ...

New atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...

Developing new functional materials, and improving existing ones, necessarily involves probing their composition, structure and function all the way down to the molecular and atomic level, and this ...

Fed up with shelling out big bucks for a flashy flagship? You’ll probably want one of the best mid-range smartphones instead. Gone are the days when opting for a sensibly-priced phone meant settling ...

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While it contains no element of scaremongering, the conclusion Martin Rees reaches is a deeply disquieting one. To put a number on it, humankind has, in his considered view, only about a 50 per cent ...