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What Erwin Schrödinger Said About the Upanishads

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First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

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They Kicked Electrons With a Laser This Way. The Electrons Flowed the Other Way.

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How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon

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Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

CMS detector. Credit: Laura Gilchrist/Flickr, CC BY-ND

A Mystery Particle That Seems to Threaten Our Understanding of Physical Reality

Chemistry Nobel for Microscopes That Can ‘See’ the Atoms of Life