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Helen Edwards Helped Create a Particle Smasher to Probe the Mysteries of Atoms Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.
How NASA’s Stranded Starliner Astronauts Could Fly Home with SpaceX NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS since they launched to the station in early June. Now the space agency is close to deciding how to bring them back
New ‘Hobbit’ Fossil Clarifies Origin Story of this Tiny Human Relative A tiny human relative called the Hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new fossil suggests