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Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI science center. Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman, RealSpace and COSI Science Now. He contributed this ...

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What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe? Quantum Field Theory is generally accepted as an accurate description of the subatomic universe. However until recently this ...

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