Physicists with the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have tested whether top quarks adhere to Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
Installation of the CMS beam pipe. Image credit: CERN / CMS Collaboration.
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Vacations are good for employee well-being, and the effects are long lasting
If you’re like many Americans, you probably didn’t take all your vacation time this past year. Even if you did, it’s highly likely you didn’t fully unplug while off the clock.
But you might want to change that if you want to improve your health…
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Quantum Milestones, 1923: Photons Are Real
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Arthur Compton’s results convinced most skeptics that in some experiments, light can act like a stream of particles.
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Arthur Compton (left, shown here with Francis… Continue Reading
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Why Did Prohibition In The US Increase Organized Crime Instead Of Reducing Alcohol Consumption? » ScienceABC
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Prohibition banned legal alcohol, creating a lucrative black market that organized crime groups exploited, significantly expanding their power.
Prohibition in the United States, a period…
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DARPA Project Reveals Humans Can Control Dozens of Robots
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these…
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Stargate Project: Trump Announces $500 Billion AI Investment
In a news conference on Tuesday, President Trump announced the Stargate Project, which he called “the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.”
With the CEOs of OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank at his side, Trump said that these…
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Hominins Were Present in Eurasia by At Least 1.95 Million Years Ago
Paleoanthropologists have found 1.95-million-year-old cut-marked bones that appear to have been made by early hominins using stone tools at the site of Grăunceanu in Romania. The discovery sheds new light on the timing and extent of hominin…
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Strong as steel, light as foam: High-performance, nano-architected materials
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam.
In a new paper published in…
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Sound of Meteorite Strike Recorded for First Time Ever
In July 2024, a home security camera in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth. According to meteorite experts, the event is likely the first and only time the sound of a…
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Creating bioinspired structures with 3D printing
Jan 24, 2025 (Nanowerk News) When 3D printing was first introduced in 1985, it marked a major turning point for the manufacturing industry. In addition to being cheaper than traditional… Continue Reading