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Beyond COVID-19: Fundamental principles that shape pandemics

Every pandemic is different. Nevertheless, certain commonalities can be identified across all pandemics. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), together with an interdisciplinary team of experts, have compiled 10 fundamental mechanisms that can be used to describe the development of pandemics.

Using the Earth's magnetic field to hunt for axions and dark photons

Dark matter's existence is all but certain—astronomers believe it makes up about a quarter of the universe's total energy content—yet its true identity has eluded us for decades. Two of the leading candidates for dark matter are the hypothetical particles ultralight axions and dark photons, which in the range studied here would be some 19…

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