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05/01/05

Springtime at Daresbury

How a quiet, unassuming laboratory in the northwest of England transformed itself into a powerhouse of accelerator physics and technology.

05/01/05

Virtual structure

As the newly-appointed Director of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), Barry Barish will lead teams of scientists worldwide in the research and development projects advancing the design of the next-generation discovery machine in high-energy physic

05/01/05

Bubble chambers are back

Bubble chambers, once at the forefront of particle detection and then relegated to the history books, are coming back.

05/01/05

Chris Henschke: HyperCollider

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and overthrew the notions of absolute space and time. His later General Theory of Relativity was so revolutionary that even he had trouble accepting its full implications.

05/01/05

Frolicking bison

As spring arrived, so did the kids. Their knees wobbly and eyes wide open, they stayed close to their moms. Dad, weighing more than 2500 pounds, made sure that no harm came the babies' way.

05/01/05

Soudan mural

This mural in the Soudan Underground Laboratory, located in Minnesota half a mile underground, was designed by artist Joseph Giannetti. Its theme is matter and energy, and--more specifically--neutrino physics.

05/01/05

Breathing accelerator

As the sun rises each day, warming the grounds and buildings of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the entire SPEAR3 synchrotron facility expands in response.

05/01/05

The decade of the neutrino

Speaking experimentally, the past decade has been the "Decade of the Neutrino." It produced neutrino experiments across three continents, going from the lab, to the nuclear reactor, to the atmosphere, to the sun, and back to the nuclear reactor.

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