Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme it can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth’s liquid iron core, 2500 kilometres beneath the surface, and also in elusive “warm dense matter” inside large planets like Jupiter
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Exploring the last white spot on Earth: ESRF inaugurates unique new X-ray facility
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