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Conceptual illustration of cosmic rays with students in the background

Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day

10/01/24

Chris Patrick

Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s cosmic visitors.

08/01/08

Dark matter music

The search for dark matter strikes a new note with a multimedia art work that turns data from an underground experiment into colored light and musical tones.

08/01/08

Z boson

The Z boson is a neutral particle that mediates the weak force.

08/01/08

Some days Jerry Zimmerman calmly follows his typical morning routine and joins countless other suburbanites on the road to work. Then there are the other days. Those days Zimmerman takes on an alter-persona.

07/28/08

Got enough physics?

07/18/08

Packing metal in fangs, claws and jaws

04/01/08

Nuclear force

On November 1, 1934, Hideki Yukawa began to write the first draft of an article that would earn him the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics.

04/01/08

Persis Drell: New SLAC director grapples with change

Layoffs, budget cuts, a call for new vision in high-energy physics -- in her first months as director of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Persis Drell had a lot to navigate.

04/01/08

Now that's serious metal music

Tesla coils always draw crowds, and the DucKon science fiction convention in Naperville, Illinois, was no exception. People gathered around the seven-foot-tall metal transformer tower and awaited its monotone crackle, purple sparks, and thrilling flashes of artificial lightning.

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