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Optics and photonics Blog Physics World 2014 Focus on Optics & Lasers is out now Find out how the latest basic science is being transformed into technology
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Telescopes and space missions Blog BICEP2's findings trigger new kind of 'inflation' The many arXiv papers based on BICEP2's data
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