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  1. A new era of physics at the Large Hadron Collider

    Last month in Washington, D.C., at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, theoretical physicist Lisa Randall of Harvard University spoke about her hopes for the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. She sat down with Science News physical sciences writer Devin Powell after her February 19 […]

    By Lisa Randall

  2. The costs of putting knowledge into the wrong hands

    As a chemist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., David Nichols studies psychedelic compounds in a quest to understand the brain, often creating new compounds as part of his research. He was recently dismayed to find himself cited by name in a newspaper article about an amateur chemist who scours the scientific literature for […]

    By David Nichols

  3. Convergence solves problems that don’t fit in one field

    In January the American Association for the Advancement of Science hosted a panel in Washington, D.C.,