Sea monsters at LIGO, how to become a ‘thought leader’ and why not string theory?
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Excerpts from the Red Folder
Breakthrough could lead to better atomic clocks
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Test mass is undisturbed as it floats through space
Convection cells create the patchwork surface of Sputnik Planum, say scientists
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Excerpts from the Red Folder
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New technique could lead to intense tabletop terahertz sources
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Discovery could help to explain how some fish detect tiny electric fields
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Tiny sliver of cobalt should undergo precession in weak magnetic fields, say physicists
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