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Student research helps prepare Cornell lab for brighter X-ray beams
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Student research helps prepare Cornell lab for brighter X-ray beams

Only 40 feet underneath Cornell University’s football field, electron and positron beams race around a half-mile loop of narrow piping nearly as fast as the speed of light in a machine known as the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, or CESR. Junior Laura Salo’s research involving CESR at Cornell this past summer helped move the team...

Economics department talks pros and cons of cryptocurrencies
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Economics department talks pros and cons of cryptocurrencies

A currency designed to ease internet payment could revolutionize the way people negotiate, from legal contracts to crowdfunding. Hillsdale College Economics Professor Michael Clark teaches when rational to pursue high-risk, high-reward investments, such as cryptocurrencies, a $700 billion market as of Jan. 3 according to Business Insider. Clark said that a cryptocurrency is a digital...