One big dream of ultrafast science has been to watch changes in nanoparticles or biomolecules on their natural timescale.

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Over the summer, Europe provided a stark new set of images of climate change. Wildfires raced across forests and grasslands, ...

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War destroys laboratories and instruments. It also severs the human networks through which science reproduces itself. It ...