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  • Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
    We should not only value the environment in terms of intrinsic and instrumental values, but in terms of relational values as well. Otherwise we risk omitting important ways in which people relate to nature and to each other. Image courtesy of Henri-Paul Coulon (photographer).

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  • Inner Workings: Building accelerator afterburners with plasma
    Huge planned particle accelerators are pushing the limits of economic and political feasibility. An experimental approach could serve as an energy booster of sorts for a linear collider, allowing for much higher energies in the same distance. Image courtesy of Weiming An (University of California, Los Angeles, CA).








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