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Particle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of...
Past Event
At the center of the Earth, matter is crushed under pressures millions of times higher than we experience here on the surface. Pressures in...
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Public Lecture
Catalysis: the Hidden Path to Foods, Fuels and Our Future
The high standard of living we enjoy today is made possible by catalysts – behind-the-scenes agents that promote chemical reactions in the vast majority...
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Shortly after the birth of the universe, space was filled by a plasma that was literally red-hot. The light radiated by that plasma has...
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Public Lecture
A Material World: a Renaissance at the Atomic Scale
It would have been hard to predict Google, Facebook and Twitter as results of the creation of the first transistor out of a chunk...