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

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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

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Former high-ranking Nazi officials in the dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946.

Myanmar’s military coup leaders have reportedly put the country’s lawfully elected leaders on trial. It is understood that the proceedings, apparently held in secret and without giving the defendants the benefit of legal representation, could last for up to six months. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s state counsellor and deContinue Reading

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Appetite drug shows promise in treating obesity

Participants lost around 15% of their body weight on average. Rostislav_Sedlacek/ Shutterstock A recently published clinical trial of the anti-obesity drug, semaglutide, has produced a degree of weight loss which has led some to dub the medication a “game changer” in the treatment of obesity. The trial looked at 1,961Continue Reading

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