Tag: Science

For decades, much of the federal government’s technical decision-making has quietly depended on a layer of expertise that most Americans never see: the advisory committees, panels and working groups that translate research into policy recommendations. Now, according to reporting by NPR, a significant number of those bodies have been reduced or eliminated under the Trump…

Recreating the first microseconds For a few fleeting instants, inside a machine buried beneath the ground, physicists say they have produced conditions resembling those that filled the universe in its earliest moments — a droplet of matter so hot and so dense that the ordinary rules of chemistry, and even of atomic structure, no longer…