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A snail incredibly ate a car’s tax disc which almost left a garage owner with a hefty fine [SWNS] Jon Roles, 33, found the hefty notice on a broken down van he was meant to pick up in Yeovil, Somerset. But on closer inspection the garage owner saw a snail eating the last remains of the disc. Mr Roles’ father ...

Move over, graphene and carbyne — stanene, with 100% electrical efficiency at temperatures up to 100 degrees Celsius (212F), is here, and it wants to replace the crummy, high-resistance copper wires that are a big limiting factor in current computer chips. Where graphene is a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, stanene is a single-atom-thick layer of tin. Modern computer chips, such ...