Binary star breaks speed record
The fastest binary star system ever detected could provide a glimpse of gravitational waves
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A recipe for female success
First ‘women in physics’ conference resolves to tap the under-used pool of female talent
Losses and games for quantum computers
Classical light and a classic riddle get the quantum treatment
Willibald Jentschke 1911 – 2002
Founder of the DESY electron synchrotron centre dies aged 90
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Astronomers see the most distant galaxy yet
Radiation from a galaxy 15.5 billion light years away lights up the early universe
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‘DNA computer’ cracks code
Biology tackles the most complex task yet solved without electronic computers
Physicist scoops religion prize
John Polkinghorne wins £700 000 Templeton Prize
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Light flashes charge the atmosphere
‘Blue jets’ make an electrical connection between clouds and the upper atmosphere
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Physicists forecast ‘super-Niño’
El Niño and La Niña could be fluctuations in a longer-term climate phenomenon
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Thermal emission goes coherent
Nanoscale gratings enable thermal sources to emit coherent infrared light
