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Strong eruption at Mount Sinabung generating large pyroclastic flow

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Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles

Clouds of rocks and gas known as pyroclastic flows spew out of volcanoes and race over land at terrifying speeds, skating on an air pocket beneath the rubble

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Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his?

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Einstein quiz: Can you guess which quotes are really his?

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Linear collider

Technology

Japan inches towards building a successor to Large Hadron Collider

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specimen rack

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Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

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Flerov lab

Physics

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

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Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

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Dark matter secrets could lie buried in ancient rocks on Earth

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LHC

Physics

Evidence of new physics could have been under our noses all along

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5 of the world’s toughest unsolved maths problems

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5 of the world’s toughest unsolved maths problems

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Seeing inside Earth’s secrets using cosmic muons

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Seeing inside Earth’s secrets using cosmic muons

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What's inside nothing? This laser will rip it up to find out

Physics

What's inside nothing? This laser will rip it up to find out

Far from being empty, the vacuum of space could be brimming with mysterious virtual particles. We now have a machine powerful enough to tear it apart and see

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Why CERN's plans for a €20 billion supersized collider are a bad idea

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Physics

'We'll die before we find the answer': Crisis at the heart of physics

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Life

How hagfish can make enough slime to clog a shark's jaws in seconds

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What do you do with the world's most powerful laser?

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