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12/08/16

A syllabus in cosmic rays

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

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02/01/05

Hot relationships

The growing relationship of astrophysics and particle physics is a hot topic these days. In addition to the appearance of new faces and institutions at the labs, the growth of this area of research can actually be seen in the references of particle physics papers.

02/01/05

Event display

Finding new species of particles isn’t as easy as simply watching them fly out of a collider experiment.

02/01/05

Pixel art

Inspired by the pixel structure of far away objects in astronomical images, artist Tim Otto Roth uses live scientific data to create visions of science in action.

02/01/05

Einstein iconography

I discovered the theory of relativity and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

02/01/05

Opportunities, decisions await Oddone

Pier Oddone, deputy director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will assume the leadership of the largest US particle physics laboratory at a time of great scientific opportunity and important decisions.

Image of the yellow and blue E=mc2 balls
02/01/05

E=mc2

Your car, and virtually all other activity on Earth, is ultimately powered by Einstein’s most famous equation.

02/01/05

Let it rain

The most energetic particles in the universe have a message for us. The gigantic Pierre Auger Southern Observatory, still under construction in Argentina, is already trying to decipher it.

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01/01/05

Inflation

In 1978 Alan Guth heard about the “flatness problem” of the universe while attending a talk on cosmology—a field he was only marginally curious about. A year later, Guth found a solution.

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