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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.

08/01/10

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.

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 labÂ’s new Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator.

06/01/10

Take me out to the calculator

Baseball fans and physicists share two key loves: numbers and acronyms. While fans pore over statistics on RBIs, OBPs, and ERAs, physicists analyze data from particle accelerators such as RHIC, LHC, and CESR.

06/01/10

The LHC decoded

Walk like a physicist, point by point, through three of the displays that highlight scientific and technical milestones from the Large Hadron ColliderÂ’'s first months of operation.

06/01/10

Getting down with CO2

When Princeton University geoscientist Catherine Peters learned about a plan to build the world's deepest science laboratory in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota, she saw a chance to tackle an urgent challenge: how to store carbon dioxide deep underground so it can't escape into th