A first-person view of physics history

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.

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.

New imaging tools from the LHC

Technology developed for the Large Hadron Collider is changing the way we see our bodies.

The do-it-yourself cyclotron

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

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.