Physics beyond the imaginable

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.

Redshift

Strong focusing

In the summer of 1952, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Cosmotron particle accelerator were preparing for a visit from scientists planning their own, more powerful, accelerator at a new European lab called CERN.

Kate Nichols: Color by physics

An artist's search for a new way to create color could compel science to ask a few new questions of its own.

Isotope production

Hundreds of thousands of patients around the world depend on medical imaging to reveal injuries, diagnose disease, or learn how a course of treatment such as chemotherapy is affecting their bodies.

Accelerators for America's Future

A report from the field on the vital roles that accelerators play in energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security and defense, and discovery science will inform strategic planning for accelerator science and technology by DOE's Office of Science.