Fusion ambassador
From boss of the CERN particle-physics lab to head of the UK’s fusion programme, Chris Llewellyn Smith has held some of the top jobs in physics. He talks to Michael Banks a...
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Web life: The Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience
Explore the physics of fusion through interactive games on a simulated tokamak
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Not wrapped up yet
Is the universe multiply connected? wonders Andrew Jaffe
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How massive stars form
Big stars, like small ones, can form by accretion after all
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Stars born into Milky Way’s violent centre
Protostars prove that stars can form near a supermassive black hole
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Magnetic fields could reveal exoplanets
Astrophysicists propose new way of viewing the heavens
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Let the global astronomy celebrations begin
The International Year of Astronomy marks the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. As the 2009 celebrations kick off,
The economy may be in a nosedive but there is plenty to look forward to in science this year Water droplets take on strange shapes when levitated and spun Exoplanet puzzle seems to be solved
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Reasons to be cheerful
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Spinning drops could model black holes
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Water confirmed on distant planet
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