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Future Circular Collider: What is it?

March 8, 2019
Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success of the LHC and extend its research capabilities. Our two-part feature asks, what is...

Beating the diamond-standard

January 4, 2019
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alternative is on…  How hard is super-hard? With advances in material science and engineering, comes the possibility...

Two beams are better than one

December 10, 2018
As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace its well-known X-ray cousin? Not so say Matthew Blakeley and Derek Logan – rather, they...

Minding the gap

September 12, 2018
When it comes to visualising ultra-fast phenomena, especially biological processes, there is a problem – the Terahertz gap. Now, a pan-European consortium – the EuPRAXIA project – are collaborating to...

Some like it hot

March 16, 2018
The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they receive. if we could harvest this excess energy, we could double the efficiency of...

The legacy of Hawking radiation

March 14, 2018
Perhaps the most powerful legacy of Stephen Hawking was the inspiration he gave to others – but his science on black holes will endure...

A new quantum uncertainty

September 5, 2017
It’s quantum entanglement, but not as we know it say Kayn Forbes and David Andrews as we discover there is still plenty of room for quantum mechanics to evolve

Bringing the Sun down to Earth

July 10, 2017
Technical difficulties, experimental dead-ends and eye-watering development costs – yet the gargantuan challenge of taming nuclear fusion power is certainly within reach says Dr Andrew Kirk as he talks us...

What’s the (anti)matter

May 9, 2017
Do we need to reconsider general relativity? Have we really grasped fundamental particles? Why is there matter at all? Answers are tantalisingly close as antimatter research boldly goes towards physics’...

Fake it ‘til you make it…

April 18, 2017
In the hunt for dark energy, cosmologist Dr Massimo Viola has become embroiled in a tale of deception most foul…all in the name of the truth. Here he tells us...

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