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Release The Muons! Physics Breakthrough Will Lead To A New Kind Of Particle Collider
The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometre-round ring, costing over $US10 ($15) billion, with no promise of finding something as glamorous as last decade’s Higgs boson. But does the future of physics need to be so large? What if researchers could probe the secrets of the smallest particles using technology that was,…
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How Scientists Will Look Inside Fukushima’s Radioactive Cores
The inside of Fukushima’s three busted reactor cores are a big mess. It’s basically just hundreds of tons of very, very, very radioactive materials like uranium, plutonium and caesium. Workers want to clean it up, but they have a problem. It’s so dangerous, they can’t peek inside, much less go inside.