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Open collaboration makes CERN great – let’s do it for climate change

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Open collaboration makes CERN great – let’s do it for climate change

The model of collaboration between scientists across national borders has proved its worth at the CERN particle physics lab. It would also work to fight climate change

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Fabiola Gianotti

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CERN boss: Big physics may be in a funk, but we need it more than ever

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Red Deer Stags at the rut

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Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games

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National Ignition Facility Laser System

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Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode

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NA64 experiment at CERN

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Physicists see new hints of a fifth force of nature hidden in helium

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Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.

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Massive simulation of the universe shows how galaxies form and die

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The plucky probe that put the big bang theory to the test

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

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Manual Override exhibition

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Don’t miss: Art meets science, atoms find love and numbers grow curves

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Polling station

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Tactical voting campaign says maths can solve the UK's political mess

A site designed to help voters who want to stop Brexit has come under fire for its recommendations, but the group behind it say it is backed by statistics

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Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity

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Technology

Timeline: A brief history of quantum computing from 1980 to 2100

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AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

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Technology

Quantum supremacy: What can we do with a quantum computer?

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