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W&M Racing Team, ‘Flying Fish’ Win Autonomous Boat Competition

When the winner of the 2026 Promoting Electric Propulsion (PEP) autonomous division was announced, the presenter used one word to describe them: noticeable. Finishing the 2-mile course more than five times faster than the second-place team, it was clear to everyone watching who had won, but beyond the docks, the results turned a number of heads. William & Mary Racing, competing against large engineer schools like Johns Hopkins, Virginia Tech and North Carolina State, had sailed away from the competition.

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Two summers of Jefferson Lab mentorship shape physics student's future

Two Leading Experiments Reveal Combined Insights Into Why Matter Exists

At the moment of the Big Bang, matter and antimatter were created in equal amounts - or at least that’s what the standard laws of physics predict. If that were the whole story, however, matter and antimatter would have destroyed each other completely, leaving behind only energy.