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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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Illustration of a giant toddler on a trike.

The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

Feature of Bill Fontana "Acoustic Time Travel"

07/30/13

CERN artist-in-residence develops ear for physics

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

Triptych showing three different pieces of accelerator art

07/23/13

From accelerator to art

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

Real talk: Everything is made of fields

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

Force carriers

Particles communicate with one another through force carriers.

07/09/13

Detecting opportunity, in particle physics and beyond

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

Photo of Scott Fahlman holding smiley face sign

07/08/13

Physics and the birth of the emoticon

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

Illustration of Detective Planck using magnifying glass over finger print

07/02/13

Secrets of the early universe

Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.

Photo of LCLS engineering physicist Silke Nelson, right, shows intern Tyler Couto how to operate a controls system

07/01/13

Big data and the X-ray laser

Ultrafast experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source require powerful, unique data systems adapted from particle physics.

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