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Using proton beams to destroy a target and working alongside AI-enabled robots might have seemed more at home in Star Wars fiction than in reality a few years ago – but not any longer.

With the spectrometers from PCE Instruments, material samples of various compositions can be measured. In addition to solid, powdery and pasty samples, even liquids can be measured.

PCE Instruments offers several videoscopes perfectly suitable for such applications. One of them is the PCE-VE 380N which allows the user to look into machines and equipment without interrupting operation, even under most difficult conditions.

The annual survey – in its 22nd year and with 304 respondent businesses employing 830,000 employees – revealed firms are on track to create more jobs, with over two in five (43%) expecting to grow their workforce in the next year (broadly in line with last year 45%).

Understanding how these distinct viruses inhibit each other could help public health planning to improve forecasting models that predict respiratory disease outbreaks and strategies for controlling disease spread, say the scientists from the

After carefully judging thousands of entries, five-year-old Rose’s design of a festive Father Christmas saw off stiff competition to take the top prize. Runners up were Sarah (10) from Arbury Primary School, Merlyn (9) from Colville Primary and Sophia (9) from Cherry Hinton Primary.