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11/23/18
Massive

Animation: Dark energy

This mysterious substance is accelerating the expansion of our universe.

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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD

07/25/24
Sarah Charley

Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.

09/01/08

Chomp a cup for science

When you walk into a bar you expect to see whiskey bottles and beer taps, not stacks of tooth-imprinted foam cups.

09/01/08

Mapping the digital divide

Physicist Les Cottrell is the meteorologist of Internet weather. His project tests the strength of Internet connections around the world—and finds Africa lagging farther and farther behind.

09/01/08

Powerlifting physicist pulls 11-ton truck

Jennifer Gimmell's coworkers didn't believe she competitively pumped iron. But as the evidence piled up—including a photo of her pulling a 23,000 pound truck—her fellow physicists had to concede: The strong force had nothing on Gimmell.

09/01/08

JLab's new director

Hugh Montgomery has taken the helm of the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia after almost 25 years at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. He is JLab’s third director, replacing retiring Christoph Leemann.

Logbook of August 2008
08/01/08

Z boson

In May 1983, physicists on the UA1 detector for the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN made the first definitive observations of the Z boson.

08/01/08

Call of the bike

As Reid Mumford pedals, sometimes he thinks about how to break away from the pack. Other times he thinks about how the smallest bits of the universe break apart in high-energy collisions.

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