🔊🦠 A #research team used high-frequency #sound waves to fracture the protective shells of #influenza and #COVID-19 #viruses. The vibrations cause the viral particles to shake until they break, rendering them unable to infect cells.

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#Synchrotron control room, Yerevan

Physics Institute, Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia
In 1956, the Soviet physicist Artem Alikhanian began the development of the Armenian accelerator, known as #Arus. His aim was to construct the most powerful electron synchrotron in the world, capable of accelerating particles to nearly the speed of light around a closed loop.

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Interdepartmental Training and Technology Centre for High-Voltage Pulse Engineering, Polytechnic Institute Kharkiv, Ukraine

The high-voltage hall has remained almost unchanged for a century. A Soviet-era mural depicts a hand grasping a lightning bolt.

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Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

A new department of the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology, the laboratory of electromagnetic oscillations, was established in 1930. Led by Abram Slutskin, it pioneered research into electrical engineering and electromagnetic waves.

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