The freckled universe

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.

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.

Sharing pizza across the Pacific

Monitoring a particle detector on the midnight shift can have a limited upside: the food.

Joe Frisch: Go, man, go!

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

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.