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Nuclear power Blog Two new reactors for Canada The reactors will come online in 2018 and the design will be chosen in November from a short list of three firms...
Everyday science Blog A real gem on arXiv I spent an hour or so this morning trawling through the arXiv preprint server where I spotted "Growth of Diamond Films from Tequila"...
Nuclear fusion Blog Cold-fusion demonstration: an update Several of you have asked when I'm going to give you an update on Yoshiaki Arata's cold-fusion demonstration...
Acoustics Blog Cylinders of silence A paper published today presents a "feasible" recipe for creating a metamaterial that could completely cloak an object from sound...
Astronomy and space Blog Astronomy in the dock Earlier this week our Paris correspondent was back in her hometown of Liverpool...
Everyday science Blog Going once…a first edition of Copernicus’s magnum opus Most of you will never have raised an arm at Christie's auction house...
Read article: Microscience 2008 offers a hands-on approach to microscopy Microscopy Blog Microscience 2008 offers a hands-on approach to microscopy Workshops and Learning Zones will give delegates the chance to try out the latest instruments