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The crystal growers behind the graphene revolution

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The crystal growers behind the graphene revolution

Takashi Taniguchi and Kenji Watanabe create high-quality crystals that offer the perfect substrate on which to tailor-make two-dimensional materials with amazing electronic properties. They tell 51¶¯Âþ how they grow their world-renowned crystals

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The Matter-wave laser Interferometric Gravitation Antenna

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Gravitational wave hunters will get an ultracool new tool in 2023

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The LCLS-II electron gun in a Berkeley Lab clean room where it was assembled. (Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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The world's ultimate X-ray machine will start up in 2023

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

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How sounds from space are revealing otherwise hidden cosmic phenomena

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It may be possible to traverse a wormhole and then send a signal home

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Laser

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Lasers used to throw and catch single atoms for first time

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Collider Detector at Fermilab

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The W boson gave particle physicists a major shock in 2022

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The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there

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The strange physics of absolute zero and what it takes to get there

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WALTER TOSTO COMPANY REPORT https://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionforenergy/52231537313/ Final assembly of Europe's sector 4 of the ITER Vacuum Vessel, Walter Tosto, Italy, May 2022.

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Unlimited energy from fusion became a more feasible prospect in 2022

Landmark confirmations of physics theory, including an energy production breakthrough at the end of the year, have turned fusion power stations into an engineering challenge rather than a physics one

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How to beat your family at board games with quantum tricks

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Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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Spectacular liquid fractal generated by a submerged spinning top

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Antimatter particles could cross the galaxy without being destroyed

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