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.
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.
The past decade has seen an explosion of books about physics for the non-specialist. However, few of their authors ever get their hands really dirty in among the actual experiments that drive progress in physics.
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.
People say that nothing is perfect. I beg to differ. The notion of symmetry is both perfect and nothing—a combination that gives it unreasonable effectiveness in physics.
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.
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.
