Forget the Large Hadron Collider – our team has designed a particle accelerator the size of a large room

A prototype of our novel plasma-based particle accelerator EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report In 2010, when scientists were preparing to smash the first particles together within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sections of the media fantasised that the EU-wide experiment might create a black hole that could swallow and destroy ourContinue Reading

SARS-CoV-2, with its spike proteins on its exterior coloured orange

Editor’s note: Anne Moore is a senior lecturer in biochemistry and cell biology at University College Cork and a specialist in vaccine development. We spoke to her for episode 3 of The Conversation Weekly podcast on vaccine manufacturing. Below are excerpts from our conversation that have been edited for lengthContinue Reading