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the physicist on a mission to build the world’s first nuclear clock
Ekkehard Peik thought it would take only a few months to create the basic ingredients of a radical new clock. That was back in 2001, when he and his colleague Christian Tamm proposed a device with the potential to be even more precise and portable than the world’s best atomic clocks. Peik’s estimate was off by more than two decades.…
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How provinces and cities can sustain US–China climate cooperation
In 2017, the governor of California Jerry Brown (left) met with China’s President Xi Jinping to sign a series of climate agreements.Credit: Imago/Alamy The relationship between the United States and China stands at a crucial juncture. Given Donald Trump’s recent victory in the US election, the slowdown in China’s economy and rising tensions around trade and technology, productive cooperation between…
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I fled the war in Ukraine. Now I work on ways to help the country’s soil heal
Olena Melnyk at the Salisbury Plain military training area, UK, testing a soil-sampling protocol for use in bomb craters.Credit: Mark Horton As head of the International Projects Division at Sumy National Agrarian University (SNAU) in Ukraine, Olena Melnyk often strongly encouraged researchers to keep up with the latest developments by building international networks. Little did she know that this skill…
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First rocks returned from Moon’s far side reveal ancient volcanic activity
Researchers have had their first-ever look at samples brought back from the Moon’s far side — and they detail a history of volcanic activity that spans billions of years. The results are the first scientific analyses of samples retrieved by the Chinese mission Chang’e-6, which scooped up nearly two kilograms of lunar soil and returned it to Earth in a…
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Trump’s shadow looms at climate summit: what COP29 could deliver
The COP29 climate summit, where negotiators from more than 200 nations will meet, opened on 11 November.Credit: Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Extreme storms fuelled by climate change have wreaked havoc across the world in 2024, including in Brazil and the Philippines. The average annual temperature for the globe could reach 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time this…
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Five protein-design questions that still challenge AI
Alena Khmelinskaia wants designing bespoke proteins to be as simple as ordering a meal. Picture a vending machine, she says, which any researcher could use to specify their desired protein’s function, size, location, partners and other characteristics. “Ideally, you would get the perfect design that can accomplish all these things together,” says Khmelinskaia, a biophysical chemist at Ludwig Maximilian University…
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My career path from chemist to spin-off co-founder to chief technology officer
Gaëlle Andreatta (left) and Julia Carpenter are working to bring a new type of metal foam to market.Credit: Apheros In August, the technology start-up Apheros announced a US$1.85-million funding round to develop a metal-foam-based cooling system for the world’s data centres, which are expected to account for an estimated 6% of global energy consumption by 2030. The company was established…
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Do disruptive climate protests work? Real-time survey finally offers answers
A Just Stop Oil activist hoists a banner during the group’s blockade of the M25 motorway, some sections of which carry more than 200,000 vehicles per day. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Disruptive and high-profile climate protestors can raise public support for conventional environmental groups, according to an unprecedented study that capitalized on activists’ closure of the United Kingdom’s busiest motorway. The…
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Is there life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? NASA launches mission to find hints
Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to hide a saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida today, carrying with it NASA’s US$5-billion dream of finding hints of life on a distant moon. The mission — the most ambitious hunt for life beyond Earth since NASA began exploring Mars decades…
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Author Correction: Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour
Authors and Affiliations Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Jaeseok Lee, Victor C. Tsai & Greg Hirth Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, NY, USA Avigyan Chatterjee & Daniel T. Trugman Corresponding author Correspondence to Victor C. Tsai. Source link
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