Exotic Four-Quark Particle Spotted at Large Hadron Collider

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August 11, 2021

Particle Physics Exotic Four-Quark Particle Spotted at Large Hadron Collider The rare tetraquark is one of dozens of non-elementary particles discovered at the accelerator, and could help test theories about the strong nuclear force By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Climate Change How Much Worse Will Thawing Arctic Permafrost Make Climate Change? Global warming is setting free carbon from life buried long ago in the Arctic's frozen soils, but its impact on the climate crisis is unclear By Jordan Wilkerson

Natural Disasters Could the Infrastructure Bill Make Wildfires Worse? The legislation provides billions of dollars for thinning forests in ways that some scientists think are wrongheaded By Adam Aton,E&E News

Climate Change Let's Start Naming Climate-Related Disasters for Polluters and Their Enablers The Marathon Oil Megadrought has a nice ring to it, don't you think? By Drew Shindell

Quantum Computing How Quantum Computing Could Remake Chemistry It will bring molecular modeling to a new level of accuracy, reducing researchers' reliance on serendipity By Jeannette M. Garcia

Climate Change Walling Off One Coastal Area Can Flood Another Seawalls and levees may simply shift rising water elsewhere—often into disadvantaged communities By Robin Meadows

Memory Digital Heads Help Eyewitnesses Identify Suspects Witnesses were more accurate when they interacted with 3-D models than when they looked at still photographs. And the models were less expensive than an in-person lineup By Sophie Bushwick

Space Exploration The Ethics of Sending Humans to Mars We need to avoid the mistakes European countries made during the age of colonization By Nicholas Dirks

Renewable Energy Wave Power Charges Ahead with Static Electricity Generators An ocean-powered buoy brings technology closer to the dream of obtaining energy from the sea By Maddie Bender

Microbiology Inside Millions of Invisible Droplets, Potential Superbug Killers Grow New research has created microscopic antibiotic factories in droplets that measure a trillionth of liter in volume. By Sarah Vitak | 06:34

Climate Change Here's How Climate Change Will Stress Your Homeland Hotter Asia, drier Alps, stormier U.S., saltier island nations By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World's Largest Particle Collider Muons and electrons might not experience the same fundamental interactions, contrary to Standard Model predictions By Daniel Garisto | March 2021

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