Articles tagged with: London and Sms

Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of london and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.  more

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City of London Police Accepting SMS Requests for Help

The police force covering the UK's City of london has launched an SMS service, which will allow people in the City to use their mobile phones to contact the police in non-emergency situations. The SMS service is aimed mainly at people that have hearing or speech impediments but it is available to all City residents.  more

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UK Airline Tests SMS Service on London-Moscow Flights

UK based airline, BMI has announced that it is to start trials of in-flight text messaging from mobile phones on flights between london and Moscow. The service, which is being supplied by OnAir, is being trialled for six months on a single Airbus A320 aircraft operating between Heathrow and Moscow.  more

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A quantum halfway house between the magnet and semiconductor

The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal Nature (August 21st) an international group of scientists, including academic and industrial researchers from the UK, USA and Lesotho, report that they have combined these elements with a small amount of another common metal, manganese, to create a new material which is neither a magnet nor an ordinary semiconductor.  more

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