Europhysics News

Europhysics News is the magazine of the European physics community. It is owned by the European Physical Society and produced in cooperation with EDP Sciences. It is distributed to all our Individual Members and many institutional subscribers. Most European national societies receive EPN for further distribution. The total circulation is currently about 25000 copies per issue.

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The largest renewable, easily exploitable, and economically sustainable energy resource

Giancarlo Abbate and Eugenio Saraceno

Europhysics News, 49 1 (2018) 16-22

Published online: 27 February 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2018101
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Towards TeV-scale electron-positron collisions: the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC)

Steffen Doebert and Eva Sicking

Europhysics News, 49 1 (2018) 24-28

Published online: 27 February 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2018102
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Gaia: Science with 1 billion objects in three dimensions

Timo Prusti

Europhysics News, 49 1 (2018) 29-31

Published online: 27 February 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2018103
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Gravitational Physics: the birth of a new era

Mairi Sakellariadou

Europhysics News, 48 5-6 (2017) 18-20

Published online: 22 November 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2017501
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Britain’s nuclear secrets: inside Sellafield

Antigone Marino

Europhysics News, 48 5-6 (2017) 21-24

Published online: 22 November 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epn/2017502
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