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RI Research Instruments, a company that is majority-owned by Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR), today announced orders for key components and enabling subsystems for the research gamma ray ...

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A particle accelerator was used to create lightning in a bottle by charging a spinning acrylic tube with high-energy ...