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Fluorescent nanoparticles: the super-powered cell mapper
In a surprising scientific crossover, nanoparticles designed for use in solar panels to harness the light of the Sun could be used to shine a…
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Meet the women charting unusual paths to discovery
A hobby crafter, horse-riding instructor, and…
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Sick plants, your drone doctor will see you now
If you want to stop plant disease in its tracks, it’s…
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Jan 12
Walking the Planck: the weird world of the littlest measure
Can there be a distance too small to
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Jul 27, 2023
Investigating the stickiest glue in the Universe
It turns out that even the Universe finds itself…
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Jul 25, 2023
SPEQTRE: Protecting data using the ‘spooky’ power of quantum mechanics
Quantum technologies harness
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Jul 25, 2023
MALTA3 the little detector chip built to handle big data
Next-gen particle accelerators will smash…
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Jun 22, 2023
ZEPTO: the super-charged, energy-efficient magnet hero we need!
ZEPTO might sound like a minor…
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Jun 20, 2023
The UK: Taking gravitational wave detection to infinity (and beyond)
It’s not just massive gravitational objects that have been making waves in the field of gravitational wave research, the UK has also…
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May 24, 2023
Next-gen detectors for next-gen synchrotrons
When you ramp up a facility’s brightness from ten billion…
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