Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

Charles Jencks: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

It all started with a swimming hole. In 1988, Maggie Keswick, the wife of noted architect and designer Charles Jencks, had a swamp dug up on her family’s Scottish estate to create a place for their children to swim.

Alan Alda’s romance tips for researchers

Alan Alda offers "wooing tips" for researchers.

Family ties run deep

Mark Hanhardt spent his childhood exploring caverns and watching his dad, who was a miner, come home from work covered in dust. Still, he had no interest in working underground.

Back-of-the-banana physics

Physicists have a reputation—self-made or otherwise—for discussing physics on any available surface.

LHC detector project a big leap for Pakistan

For most scientists, membership in a Large Hadron Collider experiment is a ticket to research at a frontier of particle physics. For Hafeez Hoorani, it also marked his country’s first step toward building a tradition of experimental particle physics research.

Fan to Leon: Please sign my Higgs boson

Who would you drive 10½ hours to see? The Grateful Dead? The Dalai Lama? What about an old, friendly guy who reads a lot and is really good at physics?

Engineers flip for magnets

Forget pocket protectors: Flippy magnets are the low-tech tools that some high-tech engineers won’t be caught without.

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