This summer, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a breath of fresh air. Normally filled with beams of protons, the 27-km ring was reconfigured to enable its first oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon ...

The Gateway Process was originally the brainchild of radio producer Robert Monroe, who in the 1970s studied the effects of certain sound patterns on human consciousness. He claimed that his ...

In the storybook version of American politics, a fresh idea to benefit the common good is what gets you elected as a public ...

The report came back that we were kind of blowing through all those checkpoints toward some very serious division, the potential for a catastrophic decline in Western civilization and a serious ...

The Schwinger effect reveals how vacuum fluctuations can produce real particles under strong electric fields, now explored ...

Dean George Q. Daley describes challenges and opportunities ahead for Harvard Medical School, academic research ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

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