Christmas competition
Win a copy of Stephen Hawking's new book in our festive physics-jumper competition
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ESRF marks 30 years at the forefront of X-ray science
In 1988 the research ministers of 11 European countries signed the documents that formally created the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
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A Monkee visits Fermilab, physics of stir frying, six strange facts about ‘Oumuamua
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Know your boundaries to progress materials science
As materials science reaps sustained rewards from focusing on interfaces, researchers can now access a technical note to guide them through modelling these systems
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This article is based on fictional events
David Boyt explains how Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia inspired a real scientific paper on climate in the journal Nonlinearity
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Ambient amides take nitrogen chemistry beyond Haber–Bosch
Catalysts that can break the super-strong nitrogen bond under ambient conditions provide an uncontroversial success story for nitrogen chemists
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Zond 6 recording translated by graphene laureate, architects with an extra 37 minutes on Mars
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Benchtop cosmology exploits solid-state systems
Weyl metals and all their fascinating phenomena are not the only systems for cosmological simulations
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Listening to the sunrise on Mars, scientific evidence for the masses, Hawking’s thesis bags £584,750
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Beneath the glamour, tough questions at the launch of Europe’s Quantum Flagship
Members of Europe's quantum-science community debate the nature of "basic science" and whether a billion euros constitutes a big enough investment
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