Physics beyond the imaginable

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.

Charged leptons

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.

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 Collider’'s first months of operation.

Joe Frisch: Go, man, go!

Running the world's most powerful X-ray laser requires a special intensity.

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.

Science road trip

In the summer of 1928, the young Ernest O. Lawrence set out across America in a Flying Cloud coupe to begin his new life at the University of California, Berkeley.