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In the latest round of applications for the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants, two researchers from the University of Stuttgart impressed the European Research Council. Prof. Laura Na Liu is conducting ...

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The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics want to fetch the Sun's fire to Earth. A future fusion power plant is to produce energy by fusing nuclei of the two heavy hydrogen ...

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