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SESAME synchrotron opens for users

Middle East facility overcomes political and funding challenges

Sensors track eyes using electric fields

New technique keeps up with fast-moving pupils

Flash Physics: Earth glints into space, quantum drum amplifies microwaves, mapping comet's charged particles

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TRAPPIST-1's seven exoplanets make music together

Orbits can remain harmonious for 50 million years, says supercomputer simulation

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A spotlight on accelerators in industry – sort of

A session on industry at the International Particle Accelerator Conference has some ups and downs

Sculpture inspired by neutrino lab unveiled

Sculpture to go on display at Queen's University in Kingston in September

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Bees and their magnetic superpower

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Smooth sailing

Superhydrophobic surfaces with the right microscopic structures could help reduce friction on ships, as CJ Kim explains

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The cutting edge of quantum physics

Daniel Twitchen and Matthew Markham explain how diamonds could become a quantum physicist’s best friend

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Entry denied

When Galileo was stopped at the US border, as Robert P Crease imagines it

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The one scale that rules them all

Geoffrey West's suggestion – that all complex organisms obey a few simple scaling laws – is rigorous and convincing, says author and science writer Jennifer Ouellette

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