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10/17/13

Tweetup welcomes virtual audience to CERN

CERN laboratory offered a private tour to a dozen Twitterati, who broadcast the experience to a much larger crowd.

10/17/13

Nobel Prize in physics honors prediction of Higgs boson

Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, who developed key concepts in the theory that predicted the Higgs boson, will be awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics.

10/03/13

Light rays do the twist

Accelerator physicists at SLAC have manipulated electron bunches to generate twisted light.

10/01/13

US participation in the Higgs discovery

The search for the Higgs at experiments at the Large Hadron Collider was an international effort involving thousands of people, with physicists and engineers from US institutions playing a significant role throughout.

09/30/13

Video: Accelerator on a chip

09/30/13

Researchers demonstrate ‘accelerator on a chip’

The technology used to create a new mini-accelerator could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science and medicine.

09/30/13

Physics computing innovation benefits multitude

Millions around the world, both scientists and non-scientists, use Scientific Linux, an operating system developed for particle physics.

09/26/13

Google Street View goes underground at LHC

A virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE experiments is now available on Google Street View.

09/25/13

Adler Planetarium throws ‘Particle Party’

Fermilab physicists and educators mingled with young adult science enthusiasts at Adler After Dark.

09/25/13

More than a game

Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data.

09/24/13

The great physics quest

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.

09/23/13

Artists challenged to depict physics

Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.

09/20/13

Scientists expand search for light dark matter

Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, will revolutionize our ideas about dark matter.

09/18/13

Just how weak is the weak force?

Using a unique technique, the Q-weak collaboration has found the value of the weak force to be in agreement with theory—so far.

09/17/13

South Dakota artists explore dark matter

A grassroots group of artists started a gallery project centered on Sanford Lab’s science.

09/13/13

The hunt for microscopic black holes

Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak.