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09/08/20

Scientists capture largest digital photo ever taken in a single shot

Sensors for the world’s largest digital camera have snapped their first 3200-megapixel images at SLAC.

08/24/20

LHC creates matter from light

Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen?

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Recognizing Rosemary Fowler

11/05/24

Pruthvi Mehta

A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.

02/06/14

Virtual field trips take students into the labs

Teachers are using Google+ to bring their classes behind the scenes at national laboratories and to teach students about careers in STEM.

02/05/14

Couple's history intertwined with 60 years of CERN

A pair of scientists who have been at CERN since almost the very beginning still often find themselves in the laboratory’s cafeteria, arguing physics.

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01/31/14

#FollowFriday III: Physicists to follow on Twitter

Meet four more physicists who talk about their work on Twitter in symmetry’s third installment of #FollowFriday.

01/30/14

Watch the next big neutrino experiment come together

A video from Fermilab highlights some of the many steps needed to build the largest neutrino experiment in the United States.

01/28/14

Quantum entanglement

Through ‘spooky action at a distance,’ the properties of two systems remain correlated even after they are separated.

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01/24/14

#FollowFriday II: Physicists to follow on Twitter

In the second installment in a series, symmetry interviews four more physicists you can follow on Twitter.

01/23/14

Labs work together toward high-luminosity LHC

Scientists who need to test parts for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are taking advantage of Fermilab's Test Beam Facility.

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01/17/14

#FollowFriday: Physicists to follow on Twitter

Want more insight into the world of particle physics? In this series, symmetry recommends scientists to follow on Twitter.

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