The discovery of an elementary particle that looked a lot like the electron, but had 3500 times its mass stunned most particle physicists three decades ago.
"Large scale networks of computing resources in the service of the most computationally intensive problems of the future" is one vision of the Grid, being developed by computer scientists and physicists around the globe.
It was 10 p.m. Thursday in California, midnight Thursday in Chicago, 7 a.m. Friday in Europe, 1 p.m. Friday in China and 2 p.m. Friday in Japan when Jonathan Dorfan stood up to announce the recommendation of the International Technology Recommendation Panel.
After waiting more than a year for safety and maintenance arrangements, sculptor Douglas Abdell's Kryeti-Aekyad set foot outside the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's main auditorium on August 6.
Scientists and their families are finding they must adapt to the increasingly international nature of particle physics. The effects on family life go far beyond jet lag and it's up to individuals to navigate the foreign terrain.
Some might think it strange that data taken from the Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment, a kilometer-wide neutrino detection system buried in South Pole ice sheets, is analyzed with the help of a cigarette lighter.