The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s end marks a new beginning for U.S. particle physics

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of fundamental particles heated to trillions of degrees. But this seething primordial soup—the stuff of future galaxies, stars, planets and people—only lasted a few microseconds. Matter’s more ordinary building blocks, protons and neutrons, settled out…

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Mary Coustas now: What happened to the Australian comedian and what is she doing now? | Explainer

Effie came bursting into the Aussie consciousness with the 1987 stage play Wogs out of Work and later on screens in 1989’s Acropolis Now – big hair, big voice, and all. Played by then-burgeoning comedian Mary Coustas, Effie was the second-generation Greek girl representation Australia didn’t know it needed. She was the first of her…

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