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Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have been exploring the limits of physics by smashing particles together, but a team from Yale and Harvard has taken a different approach. The so-called ACME collaboration is taking a closer look at the electron as a way to uncover new exotic particles, but it also has the potential to upend some popular ideas ...

The PS4 and Xbox One are fresh off the assembly line, and they’re both incredibly popular this holiday shopping season. That feeling of novelty and excitement doesn’t last long, though. After a while, sales will start to dip. Consoles will get discounted, and then the whole world starts to wonder when a redesign is coming out. Hardware revisions for game ...

An astrophysicist beleives he has calculated how to write a Christmas hit [PA] But now anyone can release a single after a maths whizz says he has uncovered a formula to deliver the perfect festive hit. Astrophysicist Matthew Allen examined the 25 most successful Christmas songs to discover they key traits they share. Apparently the perfect song would be a ...

David Redfern/Redferns via Getty Images Jazz great Yusef Lateef, pictured performing at France’s Jazz A Vienne festival in July, died Monday. He was 93. SHUTESBURY, Mass. — Grammy-winning musician and composer Yusef Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, has died. He was 93. Lateef died Monday at his home in Shutesbury in western Massachusetts, ...

MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS A McDonald’s rep says it agrees with the advice on its website, which has content from a third party. A burger and fries is a comparatively unhappy meal – or so advises a website for McDonald’s workers. The words of wisdom on eating healthy come from third-party content provided on the McResource Line site, where a recent posting ...

PacificCoastNews.com Long distance was what did in the ‘never that serious in the first place’ coupling of Kate Upton and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Confidenti@l has learned. We’ve learned the real reason Kate Upton is single again. Confidenti@l reported last week that the Sports Illustrated model and her “Dancing With the Stars” pro, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, have parted ways after six months together. ...

The Municipal Art Society of New York These before-and-after pictures show the potential skyline over Central Park with the proposed development of 57th St. mega-towers. Welcome to Central Dark. A new generation of mega-tall skyscrapers being built along 57th St. for foreign billionaires will cast a long shadow over New York’s premier greenspace, a new report shows. JR/New York Daily ...

ETTORE FERRARI/EPA Pope Francis carried the statue of baby Jesus himself during Christmas Eve Mass, a task usually taken by his aides. Riding a worldwide wave of goodwill and popularity to his first Christmas Eve Mass as head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis encouraged the faithful to emulate Jesus to avoid the darkness of the world. The bells ...

Mighty likes the Thunder against the Knicks at MSG. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” Bob Hope. “Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today’s Christmas should mean creating happy ...

What do you get if you combine Christmas, jury-rigged electronics, 22,000 lights, over a dozen inflatables, webcams, and custom server software running on a Linux server? Alek Komarnitsky’s controllable Christmas lights, of course! Every year, Alek — who is one of the world wide web’s most infamous OGs — lights up his house with 22,000 lights and over a dozen inflatables, ...