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...Sudoplatov's sensational tales of Soviet espionage; in fact his closeness to Beria, Stalin's last secret-police chief (1938-53), whom he served as a spy master, put him in a position to know. But Sudoplatov's most stunning charge -- that world-renowned physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr and Leo Szilard knowingly funneled U.S. atom-bomb secrets to Moscow during the World War II era -- has been assailed by critics right and left, scientists and historians, American and Russian. They cite enough errors, inconsistencies and implausibilities to make a troubling case...
...last week the scientific equivalent of "thar she blows" echoed around the world. The news came from several hundred particle hunters working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, who presented compelling evidence that not one but 12 top quarks had briefly surfaced inside a mammoth detector in their...
After a 17-year search, scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago report that they may have confirmed the existence of the sixth -- and last -- of the quarks, ghostly particles that are the smallest units of matter. Dubbed a top quark, the elusive particle weighs as much as a gold atom; it enjoyed a brief reign about a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. If the finding is confirmed, scientists will have validated three decades' worth of work that gave rise to the so-called Standard Model of particle physics...
...announcement represents the most significant development in two decades of searching for the top quark at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois...
Just what this mystery matter is made of has been the subject of some truly wild speculation. "The list of candidates," says Rocky Kolb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, "depends on whether or not you believe in a WYSIWYG universe." WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get" (dark-matter aficionados are inordinately fond of acronyms). WYSIWYG types like to assume that dark matter is most likely made up of the same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic...