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CERN’s $17-billion supercollider in question as top funder criticizes cost
The Future Circular Collider would occupy a 91-kilometre tunnel (artist’s impression).Credit: PIXELRISE/CERN Plans for a 91-kilometre European particle accelerator are…
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Physicists coax molecules into exotic quantum state — ending decades-long quest
Velocity-distribution data for a gas of rubidium atoms before, during and after the appearance of a Bose–Einstein condensate. The peak…
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What is science? Tech heavyweights brawl over definition
X owner Elon Musk (left) and artificial-intelligence pioneer Yann LeCun sparred on the social-media platform about scientific publications.Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty…
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Autistic people three times more likely to develop Parkinson’s-like symptoms
A carer helps a patient in a Swiss day-care centre for people suffering from Parkinson’s disease.Credit: Amelie-Benoist/BSIP/Science Photo Library A…
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physicist who predicted boson that explains why particles have mass
Credit: Toni Albir/EPA/Shutterstock During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University…
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Nanoscale scythe cuts molecular tethers using mechanical forces
Liu, J., Kang, W. & Wang, W. Photochem. Photobiol. 98, 288–302 (2022). Article PubMed Google Scholar Liu, J. et al.…
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official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
Ranga Dias, the physicist at the centre of the room-temperature superconductivity scandal, committed data fabrication, falsification and plagiarism, according to…
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Will the Gates Foundation’s preprint-centric policy help open access?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s top biomedical research funders, will from next year require grant…
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How synthetic biologists are building better biofactories
Scientists have used microorganisms to produce beneficial chemicals for decades. By providing the microbes with enzymes and metabolic pathways, researchers…
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is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
Social-media platforms aren’t always social.Credit: Getty The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of…
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