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Don Lincon, a senior scientist at the U.S. particle physics laboratory Fermilab, describes bosons as “puppies of the subatomic world” because you can have an unlimited number of bosons in the same ...

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Researchers discovered more than 30 dead whitebark pine trees that were entombed in ice for millennia, representing a bygone ...

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