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The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.

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For more than a century, engineers have chased new ways to turn the planet’s natural motions into usable power, from tides to geothermal heat. Now a small group of physicists says Earth’s own magnetic ...

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Dr Mike McDonagh provides insight into the factors involved in choosing and processing suitable alternative antimony alloys for lead-acid battery ...

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have used lab-grown human nasal tissue to show that a fast interferon response can ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on ...