A first-person view of physics history

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.

Hey, waiter! There's a feather in my fossil!

One hundred and fifty million years ago, a creature part dinosaur and part bird sank into the murky depths of a lagoon, never to fly again.

The muon guys: On the hunt for new physics

That physicists are still fighting for the Mu2e experiment is a testament to the strength of the science behind it.

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.

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.

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.