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Physics World April 2020

Physics World April 2020

Beating COVID-19: how physics is fighting the latest pandemic

A look at how physics-based techniques, including X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy and network theory, are helping us to understand the virus behind COVID-19 and how it spreads. Also, life in a “net-zero” world: what changes will society need to make to become net carbon neutral? And the diamond quantum revolution: UK firm Element Six explains how this special form of carbon now has many practical quantum applications too.

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green footprint artwork feature

Life in a carbon-neutral world

Doctors in Wuhan feature

Fighting a pandemic

Diamonds feature

The diamond quantum revolution

Freeman Dyson analysis

Freeman Dyson: unorthodox to the end

Sexual harassment opinion

What would you do?

Robot thinking review

Can a machine think?

LHC tunnel opinion

A call for unity within particle physics

LISA spacecraft review

Duck, duck, goose?

careers

Going with the flow

Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie review

Half a life

Cargo ship opinion

Could ammonia be the secret to shipping carbon-free?

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