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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.

08/05/13

Six scientists battled in a Minnesota hockey arena to be named the best physics entertainer.

08/02/13

A set of twin doors take on two very different purposes at Fermilab and Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo.

07/30/13

Sound artist Bill Fontana taps into the music of the Large Hadron Collider.

07/23/13

Fermilab physicist Todd Johnson spends his work and vacation hours with accelerators. What he produces during each are two very different things.

07/18/13

Theorist Sean Carroll thinks it’s time you learned the truth: All of the particles you know—including the Higgs—are actually fields.

07/16/13

Particles communicate with one another through force carriers.

07/09/13

Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.

07/08/13

Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.