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Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti and Michael Moyer discuss some of the sessions they attended at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

VANCOUVER Resistance to hydraulic fracturing in the U.S. has risen steadily in recent months.

V ANCOUVER Last fall, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab in Illinois shut down for good . The long-running accelerator had been eclipsed by the vastly more powerful Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, which since 2010 has been generating data at an impressive rate. The move appeared to quash any hopes that Fermilab had of discovering the Higgs boson , the last great known unknown of modern particle physics.

For more than 150 years New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (more commonly called The Cooper Union ) has finished its school years with an annual event