China joins the spallation club
Ling Xin reports on the construction of China’s first “super neutron microscope”
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Gisela Eckhardt and the Raman laser
Gisela Eckhardt was one of the early pioneers in laser physics. Valdas Pasiskevicius, Richard Mildren and David Burman tell the largely unknown story...
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Unchartered underground
Stephen Ornes shines a light on the small band of "speleophysicists" who combine their love of physics with a passion for caves
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Monitoring a smoking giant with muons: a plan for Popocatépetl
James Dacey investigates a plan to use muons to peer inside Mexico’s famous volcano Popocatépetl to help predict the timing and extent of its fiery outbursts
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Chicxulub: scientists revisit the crater of doom
Scientists are preparing to glean insights in crater formation, materials science and mechanisms of mass extinction from the Chicxulub impact structure
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The secret life of scientific ideas
How do great ideas in physics come about? Vitor Cardoso shares insights from his web-based project The Birth of an Idea
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Catching gravity, rolling by
David Appell explores how the Advanced LIGO facility is designed to detect gravitational waves
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Neutrons fit for the future: major upgrade for ISIS facility
The UK’s neutron and muon source, ISIS, has emerged from a major vacuum upgrade that will give researchers better tools for studying the structure of matter
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Mimicking the Martian surface to test space devices
A vacuum vessel that can simulate the harsh conditions on our planetary neighbour is an ideal testing ground for space instrumentation
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Vacuum environments aid nano exploration
Bespoke vacuum sample environments at synchrotron X-ray facilities reveal nanoscale kinetics, chemical transformations and other processes relevant to materials synthesis
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