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08/01/10

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.

08/01/10

The do-it-yourself cyclotron

Amateur cyclotron builders are dedicated, tenacious, and obsessed. Another thing they have in common: The experience changes their lives.

06/01/10

CERN touch screen

On March 11, 1972 CERN engineer Bent Stumpe proposed a new type of interactive computer display for controlling the lab’s new Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator.

06/01/10

National Lab Day puts scientists in the classroom

Pier Oddone wandered past students who were setting up electrical circuits and asked how many of them were considering careers in science. Half raised their hands. “What about a career in physics?” he asked. All but two hands dropped.