As the WIMP search kept coming up empty, XENON scientists realized several years ago that they could use their experiment to search for other kinds of unknown particles that might pass through the detector: particles that bang into an electron rather than a xenon nucleus. They used to treat these “electronic recoils” as background noise, […]
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Following a miserable fourth-quarter swoon, the stock market shone brightly in the first quarter. The broad-based S&P 500 wound up advancing by just over 13%, marking its best start to a new year since 1998. Better-than-expected corporate earnings, strong U.S. economic growth, and a temporary cessation of trade-war tariffs between the U.S. and China all
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Israel’s startup scene – which boasts of the world’s largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies per capita, is headquartered around Tel Aviv. As we explored in Chapter One, the Tel Aviv area is the host of pillar companies such as Check Point Software which spawned many other publicly-traded companies – creating the flywheel effect mentioned above.
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