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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement

09/24/24

Regina Demina and Kathryn Jepsen

The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?

11/01/04

Gammasphere

Gammasphere is a $20 million detector array that helps answer fundamental questions about the structure and behavior of atomic nuclei.

11/01/04

Typing rain

The assembled group of SLAC users hushed as Gabriella Sciolla rose to open the SLAC Users Organization annual meeting. And with that quiet came the rain.

11/01/04

Anyes Taffard: Fisikari. Physicienne. Physicist.

When her Basque grandmother—Amatxi—taught five-year-old Anyes Taffard the language of her ancestors, she overlooked the Basque term for physicist: fisikari. But by the time she was 12, Taffard was already drawn to mathematics and science.

11/01/04

The universe (in fireworks)

In its 50th anniversary year, CERN had the honor of opening the 2004 Geneva Festival (Fêtes de Genève).

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