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10/19/17

Scientists make rare achievement in study of antimatter

Scientists on the BASE experiment vastly improved their measurement of a property of protons and antiprotons.

10/16/17

Scientists observe first verified neutron-star collision

For the first time, experiments have seen both light and gravitational waves released by a single celestial crash.

10/12/17

Xenon takes a turn in the LHC

For the first time, the Large Hadron Collider is accelerating xenon nuclei for experiments.

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Conceptual illustration of a pie with a lattice crust

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.

04/01/06

A newly structured High Energy Physics Advisory Panel met in Washington, DC, to provide advice to the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation and to hear science policy-makers’ responses to the President’s budget request.

04/01/06

Hunting the origin of Alzheimer's

A surgeon and a scratch golfer most of his adult life, a US Army officer in World War II, the doctor gave up his medical practice in his 60s while exhibiting increasingly erratic behavior–such as meandering down to a favorite car dealer in his prosperous New Jersey town, and signing the pap

04/01/06

Ben Rusholme: At the South Pole

Astronomer Ben Rusholme from Stanford University spent four months out of the last two years working on the QUAD telescope at the South Pole.

04/01/06

PEP-II interaction region

The Stanford Linear Accelerator pumps large amounts of energy into beams of electrons and positrons, sending them into the PEP-II storage ring where the particles can collide, revealing the secrets of fundamental particle processes.

04/01/06

Aerial photos of SLAC

Most people like to keep their hobbies and work separate. But not Steve Williams.

04/01/06

Light sources

Light sources are accelerator-based machines used for research in fields from physics and chemistry to medicine and forensics.

04/01/06

Old giant hangs on

In biology, there is a loose rule of thumb that says the bigger an organism, the longer its life will be. If Fermilab's "Jolly Green Giant" is any indication, the rule may also apply to equipment in high-energy physics.

04/01/06

Forget Albert

Quick, give an example of a first name of a physicist. Albert? Benjamin? Sure, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin are famous examples. But their first names are rather unusual.

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