Originally published as a series of pamphlets in 1751, the first collected edition of Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America by Benjamin Franklin was the fourth ...

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World-class particle-accelerator facilities and recent advances in neutron-star observation give physicists a new toolkit for describing nuclear interactions at a wide range of densities. Michigan ...

A project to document the daily lives of Britons celebrates eight decades. As WILLIAM COOK discovers, Mass Observation began in 1937 with a bold experiment to take the pulse of a nation. A generation ...