For many patients with serious burn wounds, the most dreaded visitor each day is the doctor or nurse who arrives to change the bandages. But accelerator-treated bandages can create healing environment.
It all started with a swimming hole. In 1988, Maggie Keswick, the wife of noted architect and designer Charles Jencks, had a swamp dug up on her familys Scottish estate to create a place for their children to swim.
For birders, it all comes down to that moment. Focus your binoculars, steady your hands, and look, hard, until you find that glimpse of feathers, a spark of recognition. Do you see it?
Some exploding stars release bursts of oddball neutrinos. Scientists with the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment are eager to catch those neutrinos and milk them for discoveries.
A new type of particle collider known as a muon collider considered a wild idea a decade ago is winning over skeptics as scientists find solutions to the machine's many technological challenges.
When I began my professional life as a civil engineer, I thought that I would spend my career building bridges. As it turned out, thats what Im doing—only the bridges that I help build are very different from those I studied in engineering school.
Electrons, positrons, protons, antiprotons: These particles have formed the basis for much of the particle physics research and many of the discoveries of the past hundred years. Will there be other particles that play a similar role in the future?
