Particle physics has chosen low-temperature superconducting technology for the International Linear Collider. What is "cold," and why have particle physicists lowered the temperature on a new accelerator?
Russian physicist Nikolay Solyak has been a Fermilab employee since 1999. When he left the United States in September 2003, a short trip abroad turned into a four-month odyssey, separating him from his work and family in the United States. His documents tell the story.
From cave paintings of bison to Monet landscapes, artists have studied and interpreted the natural world. Dawn Neal Meson, a San Francisco artist, has taken this theme one level further, or, rather, many orders of magnitude smaller.
Science plays many different roles in society. And as much as some scientists might want to remain "pure" and insulated from non-scientific concerns, there is no escaping the vital and important links that exist.
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.
Some scientists like to come up with new brainy games in their spare time, but Angela Ramsey and Andy Briggs have made their passion for games into a business.
A religious cult has stolen 250 milligrams of antimatter from a secret laboratory at CERN, intending to use it as a "devastating new weapon of destruction" to demolish the Vatican, in Dan Brown's fictional thriller, Angels and Demons.
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.
