Nuclear physics gets a stepping stone to the ‘island of stability’
First direct mass measurement of a trans-uranium element
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Law and the end of the world
Edwin Cartlidge examines the case of a US lawyer who believes that the courts must step in if required to halt experiments like the Large Hadron Collider
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Budget deficit threatens Japanese science
Scientists braced for severe cuts to the country’s research programme
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LHC speeds towards collisions
Beams circulated simultaneously at the LHC
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Laser creates record-breaking protons
High-energy protons could yield compact source for cancer therapy
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A very good Englishman
Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls
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Uranium bombs
Gerard DeGroot is underwhelmed by a new history of the nuclear age
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Secrets and spies
Jeff Hughes probes the early history of nuclear weapons
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Enter the yoctosecond
Particle collisions could yield ultrashort light pulses
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Profiles of genius and persecution
Dan Falk asks if anything unites the many Jewish successful physicists of the 20th century
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