Tech Scrape

The best of the Physics arXiv from over the holiday period

Physicists showed how terahertz waves can damage DNA

Engineers revealed the amazing secret ability of wireless networks

One of the most extraordinary computers ever built was unveiled in September

One of the most extraordinary events of the year was the successful prediction of the collapse of the Shanghai Composite Index

Invisibility cloaks looked as if they could create the ultimate illusion

The Physics arXiv Blog joined Technology Review and discussed the rules of ant traffic

An entirely new way to measure the Earth’s magnetic field remotely could revolutionise our understanding of the planet’s structure

Proving that quantum money can never be copied–even by the banks that created it–turns out to be harder than expected.

The aircraft will one day be used to circumnavigate the globe.