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  • Editorial |

    Controversial and out-of-line results should not be discarded or hidden — even though revealing them may come at some recriminatory cost, as the OPERA collaboration has discovered.

  • News & Views |

    Two experiments have measured an all-important number in neutrino physics. Going by the innocuous name of 'θ13', this parameter's value has significant implications for our understanding of the Universe.

    • David Wark

  • Research Highlights |

    • Alison Wright

  • Editorial |

    Two big-science projects — the Large Hadron Collider and the Planck satellite — are set to deliver major results in the coming year.

  • News & Views |

    Geomagnetic storms driven by the solar wind can cause the flux of high-energy electrons in the Earth's Van Allen belts to rapidly fall. Analysis of data obtained during one such event from multiple spacecraft located at different altitudes in the magnetosphere reveals just where these electrons go.

    • Mary K. Hudson

  • Letter |

    Geomagnetic storms driven by the solar wind can cause a dramatic drop in the flux of high-energy electrons in the Earth’s outer Van Allen belt. Analysis of data obtained during such an event by three different sets of spacecraft suggests that these electrons are directed into space rather than lost to the atmosphere.

    • Drew L. Turner
    • , Yuri Shprits
    •  & Vassilis Angelopoulos

  • Article |

    Rapid particle acceleration is possible using a fixed-field alternating-gradient machine—but ‘scaling’ in its design has been necessary to avoid beam blow-up and loss. The demonstration now of acceleration in such a machine without scaling has positive implications for future particle accelerators.

    • S. Machida
    • , R. Barlow
    •  & T. Yokoi

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