Dr Ardavan is confident that, if the machine can be coaxed into doing this, it will radiate in exactly the way he predicts, providing a tuneable and compact source of high-frequency microwaves in effect, a tabletop pulsar, without the neutron star.

ECONOMIST: Physics

The engineers found a way to kick-start a radio-frequency device wirelessly using an external power source initially, but running the device afterward on the output of power generated by the inner ear.

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"These are spectacular numbers, better than the GDP and employment reports suggested, and confirm that the labour market is not at the moment the source of anything that could be plausibly described as inflationary pressure, " said Ian Shepherdson of High Frequency Economics.

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