Europhysics News is the magazine of the European physics community. It is owned by the European Physical Society and produced in cooperation with EDP Sciences. It is distributed to all our Individual Members and many institutional subscribers. Most European national societies receive EPN for further distribution. The total circulation is currently about 25000 copies per issue.Editor: Victor R. Velasco ; Science editor: Jo Hermans
<p>THE MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
europhysicsnews
News and views from the former EPS presidents
The nuclear history of the universe
On the physics of high-rise building collapses
We shoot a bullet vertically. Where will it land?
EPS directory
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EPN 47/4
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CONTENTS
EPS EDITORIAL
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Large-Scale Research Infrastructures: essential framework of today’s physics research
N.-V. Zamfir
NEWS
04
Statement by C. Rossel, President of the EPS, after UK's decision to leave the EU
05
News and views from the former EPS presidents
07
Turning point for Young Minds
HIGHLIGHTS
08
Expanding Frontiers of Cosmic-ray Muon Imaging
You were right: rotational motion is relative, too, Mr Einstein!
09
Surprising qualities of insulator ring surfaces
How repeated spot microdischarges damage microdevices
The dynamics of compact laser pulses
10
Nuclear physics’ interdisciplinary progress
Bending hot molecules
11
Nurturing rare events: discreteness effects in population dynamics
Toward real-time 3D single-pixel imaging
12
Travelling wave drives magnetic particles
Sweden’s 100% carbon-free emissions challenge
New approach to nuclear structure, freely available
14
Unusual transport properties of the topological Dirac metal Na3Bi
Catalysis goes better with plasma
FEATURES
15
On the origin of the cosmic elements and the nuclear history of the universe
J. Jose´, M. Asplund, C. Charbonel, I. Cherchneff, R. Diehl, A. Korn and F.-K. Thielemann
21
15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses
S. Jones, R. Korol, A. Szamboti and T. Walter
27
Everyday physics: we shoot a bullet vertically. Where will it land?
F. Bagnoli
OPINION
30
Announcing breakthroughs and "Science Etiquette"
M.C.E. Huber
EPS DIRECTORY
31
Summary and website
THE MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
europhysicsnews
News and views from the former EPS presidents
The nuclear history of the universe