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The SAT Gauntlet

The SAT Gauntlet

“Hey Dad, it’s time to wake up!” rang out from my daughter Alex about 6:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning in October 2008. Was it time to head out to…

Lending a hand

Lending a hand

I’ve been in Kampala, Uganda, for about a month now, and the city is starting to really feel familiar. I can now orient myself by the frenetic Taxi Park or…

The first-ever collisions of beams marks the true beginning of an adventure into an unknown realm of physics.

— Brad Cox, one of several U.Va. physicists involved with the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva. The facility, designed to increase knowledge about the beginnings of the universe, recorded its first collision of protons on Nov. 23.MORE QUOTES »