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Legendary Light Amplifyer

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Asteroid impact in slow motion

High-pressure study solves 60-year-old mystery

Wall paint against coronaviruses

Promising routes to surface and air disinfection

Rare appearance

Four tops at the LHC

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Art through the X-ray eye

How particle accelerators help to analyse cultural heritage

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From Lusatia to the stars

The German Centre for Astrophysics is to be built in Saxony

Covid drugs from natural substances?

X-ray screening identifies compounds blocking a major coronavirus enzyme

Milling for more sustainable fertiliser

Mechanochemistry as an alternative production process for plant fertilizers

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The second quantum revolution

How the targeted control of quantum phenomena is changing our world

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Cosmic chemistry in the lab

X-ray laser FLASH investigates carbon compounds under the conditions of interstellar space

Coronavirus damages heart vessels

Innovative X-ray imaging provides first direct proof

Radiolarians as a design model

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Research for the energy transition

How basic research can contribute to innovations for green energy

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Neutrino hunt in Greenland

A unique facility listens for ghost particles from distant galaxies

The egg in the X-ray beam

 Innovative study shows network formation and dynamics of proteins

Seeping oceans

Water migrates deeper and to a greater extent into Earth's mantle than assumed

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The hidden universe

Multi-messenger astronomy offers a glimpse of invisible worldsamazes scientists time and again

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Coronavirus

X-ray view shows damage to lung tissue in unprecedented detail

“The Scream”

Moisture destroys Edvard Munch's masterpiece

DNA base pairs

Searching for the chemistry of life

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The strangest liquid in the world

Water amazes scientists time and again

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Coronavirus

X-ray screening identifies candidates for possible drugs

Plastic from wood

Lignin as a sustainable resource for tailor-made components

Spraying nanopaper

Ultra-thin cellulose films produced on an industrial scale

The anniversary issue

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Dark Matter

Hunting for new particles

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Asteroids reveal size of distant stars

3D-printed water sensors

Using gold to track down diseases

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The perfect wave

Physicists are devising the next generation of particle accelerators

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Black hole

Active galaxy hurls high-energy neutrinos into space

Strange mirror world

Corkscrew lasers produce mirror molecules

Quick start for X-ray laser

First experiments reveal structure of antibiotics killer

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Extreme!

Physics under high pressure

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Superstrong biomaterial

Artificial cellulose fibres outperform steel and spider silk

Edges against exhaust

Catalytic converters with many edges are more efficient

Four in one

Mini accelerator as “Swiss army knife” for electron beams

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Think anew!

How does innovation arise?

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Mixed doubles

Analysis reveals two different forms of water

Extreme ionisation

X-ray flash creates "molecular black hole"

Superhard windows

Silicon ceramic becomes transparent at high pressure

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Ultrafast Physics

When a wingbeat lasts forever

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Artificial silk from whey protein

X-ray study throws light on key production process

SMASH

Five big questions in particle physics

Spectacles for X-ray lasers

Taylor-made corrective glasses focus X-ray beam

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Cosmic particle accelerators

Astrophysicists explore the high-energy universe

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Art thriller

"The Scream" and the secret of the white spots

Battling the Zika virus

Biochemists lay the foundation for antiviral drugs

Custom-made magnetic sensors

Sophisticated deposition technique enables new applications

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NANO

Will millionths of a millimetre be the yardstick of the future?

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The most powerful accelerator in the Milky Way

Gamma rays reveal galactic "pevatron"

Molecular trick outwits hospital germs

Promising approach to tackling resistant bacteria

A sign of a new particle?

Noticeable "bump" in LHC measurement data

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The super X-ray laser

The European XFEL is a high-speed camera, a supermicroscope and a planet simulator rolled into one

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Perfection isn't everything

A breakthrough in crystallography

Nanostructures assemble themselves

A new technique for building metallic nanosystems

Why van Gogh's Sunflowers are wilting

X-ray investigation shows how chrome yellow darkens

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In the light of research

Atoms in X-ray vision, a universe full of gamma radiation

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Chocolate in X-ray light

Combating fat bloom

Shock waves in diamonds

New horizons in materials research

Stardust in the lab

Saša Bajt is examining cosmic matter

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Big data

What use is the deluge of data?

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Moonstruck

Peering into the eyes of a bizarre marine midge

Superslow motion

Magnetic memory at work

Caught in a flash

Free nanoparticles shown for the first time in 3D

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Show Yourself

The world’s biggest particle accelerator, the LHC, is looking for SUSY particles, the building blocks of a new understanding of the universe

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Surfing the plasma wave

The new accelerator technology is small, compact and powerful

Extremely flexible

New solar cells are produced on rolls

Bacteria slayers

How viruses attack the cell walls of bacteria

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Infections viewed with X-ray vision

Structural biology is opening new paths for the development of medications

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Big Bird

The most energetic neutrino ever measured

Stronger than steel

New technology produces extra strong cellulose fibres

Tetraquarks

Researchers track down particle gangs of four