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Significant developments with accurate technical context: methods, results, limitations, and what would have to be true for it to matter. We seek expert review where it matters, and never dress a lab result up as a product launch. The commercial side of research lives on the Innovation desk.
Imogen Hart, Correspondent, science & research
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Biotechnology
Therapeutics, platforms, tools. The business of applied biology, with research and deployment kept strictly separate.
Imogen Hart, Correspondent, science & research
Research & Science
Significant developments with accurate technical context: methods, results, limitations, and what would have to be true for it to matter.
Imogen Hart, Correspondent, science & research
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The latest stories.
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Science · Explainer · Europe · Franco-Swiss border
How the Large Hadron Collider Works: A Proton’s Journey Through CERN’s 27-Kilometre Ring
A proton at CERN is not accelerated once but five times, by five different machines, before it enters a ring colder than outer space and collides inside detectors the size of buildings. The journey, stage by stage.
Science · News · Europe · France
The Last Big Piece: ITER’s Final Vacuum Vessel Sector Reaches Cadarache
Europe has delivered the fifth and last of its vacuum vessel sectors for the ITER fusion experiment in southern France the ninth and final sector overall, closing a 16-year manufacturing programme and putting every core component of the machine on site.
Science · Retrospective · Asia · Seoul, South Korea
AlphaGo at Ten: The Match That Announced the AI Era
In March 2016, a computer beat the world’s best Go player 4–1 in Seoul. A decade later, the match reads less like a game than like a prologue.
Science · Evergreen · Global · the laboratory
Fusion’s Long Bet: What NIF’s Ignition Proved, and What It Didn’t
In December 2022, a laboratory in California got more fusion energy out than laser energy in. It was a genuine milestone. It was not a power plant.
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