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A 3.4-kilometer superconducting accelerator generates 27,000 X-ray flashes per second to record chemical bonds in full motion.
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Suspended in an electromagnetic vacuum trap, a single ion emitted enough photons to be captured in a historic image without an electron microscope.
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Under colossal pressures, water molecules dissociate into an oxygen crystal lattice crossed by liquid protons.
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A technological revolution that stores 700 terabytes in glass
Engineering
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In 1995, the devastating Kobe earthquake pushed the colossal underwater support towers apart, forcing engineers to redesign the project on the fly.
Geology
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A discovery inside gems from the mantle revealed the natural existence of an exotic phase of water that remains crystallized at room temperature.
Engineering
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To prevent the immense terminal from snapping in two due to seabed subsidence, engineers turned its foundation into a colossal moving puzzle.
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A marvel of quantum physics capable of keeping time without losing a single second in 30,000 million years and measuring Einstein's time dilation on a lab bench.
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Using microscopic silicon channels and ultrafast laser pulses, physics managed to compress the power of a massive collider into a millimeter-sized plate.
Science and technology
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An underground tunnel over three kilometers long fires 27,000 flashes per second to capture the exact moment molecular bonds form or break.
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In 2005, UCLA physicists managed to fuse deuterium atoms on a desk by gently heating a small synthetic gem.
Science and technology
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In 1999, physicist Lene Hau challenged the apparent immutability of cosmic speed by slowing a beam of light to just 61 km/h.