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The CMS Collaboration has just released the results of a deep study of their sample of lead-lead collisions, produced at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon by the Large Hadron Collider.

A special symposium held at CERN in September celebrated the anniversaries of the laboratory's major discoveries that underlie the modern theory of particles and forces.

When we come into this world our names are chosen for us. Old Testament names are popular with both Christians and Jews. It’s customary for Jewish parents to name a

"We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work." -Richard Feynman

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Everyone knows what the word “kike” means, but not everyone agrees on where the word comes from. That mystery is back in the headlines with yet another viral use of the slur — this time, it was NBA player Meyers Leonard who unleashed the word during a heated gaming moment. “Dictionaries prefer to say that its origin is unknown, which is right but uninspiring,” Anatoly Liberman wrote on the Oxford English Dictionary blog in 2009, as part of a series he did on ethnic slurs. And to make ...

Sen. Bong & Mayor Lani give their hearts away Ricky Lo Curtain-raisers: Will the much-delayed 2020 Miss Universe pageant be held in Costa Rica? “Hopefully,” according to beauty-pageant enthusiast Louie H. who relayed the news that Gustavo Segura, Costa Rica’s Minister of Tourism, is in talks with the Miss Universe Organization (MUO). “The first meeting was attended by the private sector and members of ICT (Instituto Costarricense de Turismo or Costa Rican Tourism Institu...