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  1. Particle Physics

    Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders closer to reality

    Muon colliders could slam the subatomic particles together in hopes of unlocking physics secrets. Giving muons a speed boost is a crucial step.

    By Emily Conover
  2. Health & Medicine

    A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting disease in deer

    The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  3. Planetary Science

    Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

    A solar wind event days before the NASA probe flyby in 1986 may have compressed the planet’s magnetosphere, making it look odder than it usually is.