Archive

07/08/09

LHC multimedia internship contest

07/01/09

Data-taking dress rehearsal proves world's largest computing grid is ready for LHC restart

07/01/09

Periodic table

Look at the periodic table of elements, and youd be hard pressed to find an element that is not used in physics. But what are the most important elements for building accelerators, detecting particles, and solving the mysteries of the universe?

06/26/09

A Higgs boson without the mess

06/01/09

A young mad scientist's first alphabet blocks

05/29/09

The accelerator and the carpenter

05/26/09

Peering at the people and process of particle physics

05/07/09

Angels, demons, and antihydrogen: The real science of anti-atoms

05/01/09

ATLAS shrunk

Carpenters working at particle physics labs are used to jobs their colleagues in private industry wouldn't dream of tackling.

05/01/09

A desert quest for no-cell-phone zone

It seemed like a mirage: A shepherd holding a silver tea service crossing barren desert to quench the thirst of strangers.

05/01/09

Credit where credit is due

In the swirling sea of thousands of people who contribute to a major particle physics experiment, how can a young physicist pop to the surface and get noticed? An international committee offers ideas.

01/30/09

South Carolina gets its own ATLAS

01/15/09

Web-watching the LHC experiments

01/12/09

New CERN director-general speaks to staff

12/08/08

Flat children visit labs by mail

11/01/08

Kate McAlpine: Rapping physics

A good portion of the public is curious about what is going on in particle physics right now, and we have an ever-longer list of ways for them to find out—from lab newsletters to personal blogs, popular-level magazines, and plain-language Web sites.