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The LSSTCam covers 21 times more area on the sky in every image

Testing, testing!

01/15/25

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just successfully completed a series of full-system tests using an engineering test camera.

06/01/12

Shmoos of the Tevatron

Particles like the top quark weren’t the only characters to appear at Fermilab’s Tevatron. A physicist waxes nostalgic as scientists prepare to celebrate the accelerator’s contributions to science, technology and society at a symposium this month.

Illustration of twinkies moving in from outer space to Earth
05/01/12

The muon

Meet the Twinkie of particle physics: the muon.

Image of physicist Jean Tran Thanh Van, creator of one of the most prestigious particle physics conferences
05/01/12

One degree of separation: the Vietnam connection

Physicist Jean Tran Thanh Van, creator of one of the most prestigious particle physics conferences, is the king of connections. His humanitarian efforts, combined with his vision of a cohesive international particle physics community, have now led him back to his home country of Vietnam.

05/01/12

The electron's dance

Paris’ Trocadéro science exhibition allows science enthusiasts to see—and even control—a real electron accelerator.

05/01/12

Hunting dark matter with BaBar

Light dark photons? Dark Higgs bosons? Scientists look for signs of these weird-sounding particles in data from BaBar—an experiment designed to explain a completely different mystery.

04/01/12

Particle physics kick-starts an X-ray laser

Physicists have used advances in accelerator technology to develop a revolutionary machine-the Linac Coherent Light Source-for exploring the world on the smallest and fastest scales. Physicist Herman Winick describes the start of the LCLS and the spectacular results that are now rolling in.

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