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Britain has a new leader, and with him a new science minister in a new department: would you guess that the 'Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills' now holds the remit for science?
Computational condensed-matter physics acquires a novel compass in the search for unknown stable structures. This global phase-space search algorithm demonstrates its power in solving the complex high-pressure phases of hydrogen.