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Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales

Details have emerged of a troubling case in which a basic engineering mistake wrecked a digital evidence investigation and led to wrongful accusations.…

Kertania Odususi, 24, traveled to Edinburgh Airport from Thailand with huge amounts of of the drug stuffed into two suitcases in March last year.

Physicists using SLAC's X-ray free-electron laser discovered two new laser phenomena that allowed them to generate the shortest, highest-energy X-ray pulses ever recorded (60-100 attoseconds). These breakthroughs could let scientists observe electron motion and chemical bond formation in real time. Physicists Uwe Bergmann and Thomas Linker write in an article for The Conversation: In this new study we used X-rays, which have 100 million times shorter wavelengths than microwaves and 100 million times more energy. This meant the resulting new X-ray laser pulses were split into different X-ray wavelengths corresponding to Rabi frequencies in the extreme ultraviolet region. Ultraviolet light has a frequency 100 million times higher than radio waves. This Rabi cycling effect allowed us to generate the shortest high-energy X-ray pulses to date, clocking in at 60-100 attoseconds. While the pulses that X-ray free-electron lasers currently generate allow researchers to observe atomic bonds forming, rearranging and breaking, they are not fast enough to look inside the electron cloud that generates such bonds. Using these new attosecond X-ray laser pulses could allow scientists to study the fastest processes in materials at the atomic-length scale and to discern different elements. In the future, we also hope to use much shorter X-ray free-electron laser pulses to better generate these attosecond X-ray pulses. We are even hoping to generate pulses below 60 attoseconds by using heavier materials with shorter lifespans, such as tungsten or hafnium. These new X-ray pulses are fast enough to eventually enable scientists to answer questions such as how exactly an electron cloud moves around and what a chemical bond actually is. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

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The stylist behind Claudia's faultless looks on the show is Sinead McKeefry, known for her work on TV shows like Strictly Come Dancing.

Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again

Updated  Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines.…

Eurovision superstar Sam Ryder has released his highly anticipated second studio album, Heartland, today.

Bristol houses thousands of students every year but waste has been pilling up by accommodations near the University of the West of England's Frenchay campus.

The corporation is grappling with a steep decline in its funding, with 300,000 households ditching the licence fee last year.

Feeling uncomfortably swollen after eating a heavy meal is a common complaint-but it's only one of five forms of bloating, according to a leading nutritionist.

Kim Kardashian's spotlight was stolen by her own mom at the All's Fair premiere on Thursday, held at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angeles.

Muzaffar Mir, 33, was driving his modified BMW M2 at 'grossly excessive speeds' when he collided with 26-year-old Joshua Wilson in Shipley, West Yorkshire.

Will Hannington, 23, jetted off with his friends to Dubrovnik in Croatia on September 24 for a week-long holiday.

As official figures showed the economy flatlined over the summer, the Chancellor laid the ground for a Budget that will target the better-off.

The work, by Friedrich Heyser, depicts Hamlet's beloved in William Shakespeare's play. It is on display at Hessische Landesmuseum in the German city of Wiesbaden.

August 'Gus' Lamont went missing from his grandparents' Outback homestead around 186 miles from Adelaide on September 27.

Adele Silcock's body was found at Patricroft railway station, in Eccles, Greater Manchester, last Saturday.

An Iranian man has had his fingers amputated as punishment despite his victim forgiving him. 

Can there be a sadder book than Virginia Giuffre 's autobiography, published posthumously after she committed suicide earlier this year at the age of 41?

The findings, published in Communications Medicine, challenge the long-standing reliance on body-mass index (BMI) as a measure of obesity.

Waking up in an Algarve villa, a glimpse of azure blue sky through the curtains of my bedroom made me feel relaxed and happy about the beach day that lay ahead.