Experts explained that the companies aren’t really doing science, so it’s not surprising that they produce different results.
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Spending billions on a huge particle collider won’t give us the breakthrough discoveries we need.
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Ha…which would be the bigger challenge? 
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The growing mistrust and hostility towards global intuitions must be overcome if the world is to successfully tackle the environmental challenges it faces, the head of the University of Sussex’s global sustainability research centre has warned.
Professor Joseph Alcamo, Director of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP), said high-quality research and closer engagement with citizens around the world was needed to overcome the growing zeitgeist that viewed organisations such as the UN as meddling amid a geopolitical backdrop of cancelled treaties, neglected obligations and frozen negotiations.
Delivering his keynote speech at the 2018 Utrecht Conference on Earth System Governance this morning, Prof Alcamo said: To many people earth system governance is not beautiful, it is worrisome, it means loss of control over their lives, and this mistrust is a big part of the national retrenchment going on.
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A new study investigates the potential use of a virus against cancer. Researchers hope that the findings will be useful for different types of cancer.
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Huge facilities, typically the size of several football stadiums, usually generate synchrotron radiation. The new device is smaller than a match.
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Counting tiny particles that can zip straight through the Earth reveals what the planet is like on the inside.
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Researchers have created a ‘modular’ robot which can analyze its environment and reconfigure itself to overcome obstacles and achieve tasks.
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Scientists at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider have seen something that may force us to abandon everything we thought we knew about the world on the level of particles.
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And hey, it might work within “decades to centuries.”
Scientists want to equip Earth with some planetary porch lights.
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