A W, A Z, And A Top Quark
The world of elementary particles has something in common with our own: there are large inequalities in the properties of particles, as in the properties of human beings. The heaviest particle, the…
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Citizen Science: Amateur Astronomer Finds Satellite NASA Lost For At Least 12 Years
The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) project was launched in 2000 to create the first comprehensive images of atmospheric plasma in our magnetosphere, a kind of cosmic…
Freeman Dyson. Don’t Call Him Doctor. He Was Too Smart For That.
Freeman Dyson, who has died at the age of 96, wouldn’t have liked being called doctor. Many other sites will well cover his life and achievements. He contributed to our understandings of…
Gun Deaths Rose 30% During The Pandemic
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 28 states experienced higher gun deaths, including suicides. New York, Minnesota, and Michigan saw numbers go up more than 100 percent, according to a…