Societies seek action on rising helium prices
New report looks to address crisis by working with vendors to develop helium-saving technologies
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Supernovae analysis finds scant evidence for dark energy
New statistical analysis casts doubt on accelerating expansion of the universe
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Uncertainty surrounds fate of European–Russian Mars lander
Demonstrator module was supposed to test landing techniques for a future Mars lander
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Consciousness is tied to ‘entropy’, say researchers
Link discovered by studying electrical activity in people's brains
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Frequency combs power new spectrometer-on-a-chip
Tiny system offers high precision
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‘Movies’ of electron motion in solar cell made using femtosecond laser
New technique combines electron microscopy with pulsed lasers to study semiconductor devices
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Laser altimeter for BepiColombo Mercury mission ready for take-off
Dual spacecraft mission to Mercury due to launch in April 2018
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Frequency comb traps and cools atoms
New technique could work on hard-to-cool atoms like oxygen and hydrogen, say physicists
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Ultrasound creates 2D arrays of droplets
Technique could be used to simulate interactions between living cells
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‘Radical’ new microscope lens combines high resolution with large field of view
Optical system can study sub-cellular processes in large biological specimens
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