From left: CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer, theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, and architect and designer Charles Jencks, creator of the Garden of Cosmic Speculation.
CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer and theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, namesake of the elusive boson that scientists at Heuer’s laboratory seek, grace the cover of the latest issue of symmetry magazine, now available online. The photo was taken during their recent trip to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, an architect and designer’s leafy representation of scientific progress. If you can’t wait for the magazine to hit the mailboxes, here’s a sampling of what you’ll find inside:
- A new type of particle collider called a muon collider – considered a wild idea a decade ago – is winning over skeptics as scientists find solutions to the machine’s many technical challenges.
- Scientists with the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment hope to study the oddball neutrinos that emerge from exploding stars. But will they catch a supernova during the experiment’s 50-year lifespan?
- Fermilab joins up with local residents and facilitator Doug Sarno to think about the best ways for the laboratory to serve not only science, but also the surrounding area.
- Birders benefit from Fermilab fauna; particle accelerators create a better bandage; sumos, slippers and science; a historical look at the first Tevatron collisions; and the Big Bang in 60 seconds.
A pdf of the issue is available for download here.
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