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Proton beams are back in the LHC

After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for restart, the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is back in operation. Today at 10.41am, a proton beam was back in...

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Optics, nanotechnology combined to create low-cost sensor for gases

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Camera chip provides superfine 3-D resolution: New imaging technology fits on a tiny chip and, from a distance, can form a high-resolution 3-dimensional image of an object on the scale of micrometers

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The micrometer-resolution image, taken from roughly half a meter (1.5 feet) away, shows the height of a US penny at various points.

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Team Returning Orbiter to Duty After Computer Swap

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Artist concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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Frustrated magnets -- new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

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Graduate student Max Hirschberger lowers the assembled experimental setup into a high-field magnet system, capable of creating fields as...

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Frustrated magnets -- new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

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Graduate student Max Hirschberger lowers the assembled experimental setup into a high-field magnet system, capable of creating fields as...

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Hubble and Chandra Discover Dark Matter Is Not as Sticky as Once Thought

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This collage shows images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope...

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Prototype 'nanoneedles' generate new blood vessels in mice: Scientists have developed tiny 'nanoneedles' that have successfully prompted parts of the body to generate new blood vessels, in a trial in mice

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The image shows a single human cell (brown) on a bed of nanoneedles (blue).

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