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In the corner of a giant field of beet on an unremarkable patch of wasteland, two 2,000ft-long corrugated steel pipes emerge at right angles from a grey cabin. In the shadow of a row of electricity pylons and surrounded by nettles, there is little about the scene to detain the casual observer.
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Euratom
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Does it matter if the UK leaves Euratom? On 29 March Theresa May sent a six-page letter notifying the EU of the UK's intention to leave. The Article 50 letter contained a clause little discussed at the time - notifying the EU of the UK's withdrawal from the European Atomic Energy Community, also known a...
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Quantum entanglement could be responsible for mass, and could finally explain why the fundamental particles of matter have the mass they do.
Sometimes, the interaction of two particles, say electrons, causes their individual properties, such as spin, to become "entangled".
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Xi cc++ particle
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The LHCb experiment is charmed to announce observation of a new particle Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Xicc++ a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark. The existenc...
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EAST
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The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), started in 2003, is on course to complete the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by March or April this year.
When completed the facility will become the first in the world to have bui...
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Quantum information
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Title: Almost Certain Escape from Black Holes in Final State Projection Models
Author: Seth Lloyd
Recent models of the black-hole final state suggest that quantum information can escape from a black hole by a process akin to teleportation. These models rely on a controvers...
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LIGO
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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has reached its target detection sensitivity, but the goal of finding the elusive phenomena known as gravity waves remains as elusive as ever.
The two facilities, one in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Loui...
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow By teasing out signatures of particles just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and...
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Fifth fundamental force
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Occasionally, physicists have postulated the existence of a fifth force in addition to the four known fundamental forces. The force is generally believed to have roughly the strength of gravity (i.e. it is much weaker than electromagnetism or the nuclear forces) and to have a range of anywhere fro...
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Lense-Thirring effect
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Title: Advances in the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with planetary motions in the field of the Sun Authors: Lorenzo Iorio (Version v3) E.V. Pitjeva, by processing more than 400,000 planetary observations of various types with the dynamical models of the EPM2006 ephemerides, recent...
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XENON1T detector
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Title: The XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment Authors: Elena Aprile, XENON1T collaboration The worldwide race towards direct dark matter detection in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) has been dramatically accelerated by the remarkable progress and evolution of li...
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Fusion device
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UCLA researchers (Seth Putterman, Brian Naranjo and Jim Gimzewski) appear to have developed a fusion device powered by a pyroelectric crystal, a type of crystal used in cell phones to filter signals. When heated, such a crystal produces a large electric charge on its surface.
They placed a li...
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Superstrings
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Theoretical physicists in the Netherlands have proposed a way to make superstrings in the laboratory. If their idea can be put into practice, it would allow aspects of string theory to be explored in an experiment for the first time. The new approach relies on exploiting the properties of ultr...
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Belle II detector
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Physicists bring together detector and accelerator to explore "new physics" beyond the Standard Model To study some of the tiniest particles in the universe, an international band of over 750 physicists from 23 countries is building a massive instrument. The instrument will smash subatomic par...
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Negative mass
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Physicists observe 'negative mass' Physicists have created a fluid with "negative mass", which accelerates backwards when pushed. In the everyday world, when an object is pushed, it accelerates in the same direction as the force applied to it; this relationship is described by Isaac Newton's Se...
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