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10/08/19
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded "for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos," with one half to James Peebles and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.

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Don’t call it toponium

04/01/25
Sarah Charley

A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.

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

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.

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

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06/01/10

John Zaklikowski: From junked part to detector art

Over the years, John Zaklikowski raided his savings account to purchase every mother board, cell phone and floppy disk in sight. Now he’s used them to create artwork modeled on large-scale particle physics experiments.

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.

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