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Dozens of Fermilab scientists were involved in the effort. 

Repair crews have restored power for about 300,000 Commonwealth Edison customers, but the utility is still working to get the lights back on for about 48,000 customers in northern Illinois.ComEd spokesman Tony Hernandez says most of the remaining outages should be fixed by Wednesday but a few c

While recovering from surgery in 2007, Beth Terry read an article — and saw a photo — that changed her life. Now the anti-plastics crusader has gotten her plastic consumption down to just two pounds a year. She says you can too, and joins Worldview Monday to explain how. 

Monday on Worldview: Breaking the plastic habit. 

Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that evidence indicates the long-sought particle, thought to answer fundamental questions about the universe, almost certainly does exist.

When some of us get a little lazy with the heat, or the hazy, rain-drenched days, at least one team has to kick it into high gear to keep our lives – and our AC's – humming along.

Many believe that Illinois legislators were lackadaisical about creating a health care exchange because they thought the individual mandate would be struck down by the Supreme Court. Now that they’re sure it will stand, it’s time to figure out what the exchange will mean and how we’ll manage to comply before the federal deadline.