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IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Joseph Calamia |
Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Zipping ions down a MEMS racetrack could lead to portable particle beams   |
Chemistry World
June 7, 2007
Ned Stafford |
German x-Ray Laser Tunnel Gets the go Ahead The German government has approved construction of a 3.4 km-long underground x-ray laser tunnel that will let scientists watch chemical reactions in action at atomic resolution. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2009
Mark Wolverton |
How to Use a Cyclotron Particle Accelerator to Fight Cancer To target cancer cells alone, the University of Pennsylvania is opening a next-generation treatment facility that uses high-energy proton beams to deliver pinpoint strikes. |
Science News
March 11, 2006 |
Quark Colors The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility offers an online six-page coloring book devoted to particle physics and quarks. |
Popular Mechanics
August 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Large Hadron Collider Turns on Sept. 10, Tests Beam on Weekend This weekend, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will perform preliminary tests in the Large Hadron Collider's "big ring" in anticipation of a Sept. 10 start date. |
Science News
February 26, 2005 |
Particle Physics Phun An array of games, such as Particle Pinball and Race for Energy, challenge visitors at a Web site hosted by the high-energy physics center known as the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. |
Chemistry World
November 3, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Antimatter Cancer Treatment Researchers working at Cern's particle accelerator laboratory have just reported a successful first experiment into the biological effects of antiproton radiation on living cells. A US biotech firm already owns the intellectual property rights on the development of an antiproton clinic. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
JR Minkel |
A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now Black holes won't eat anyone alive, particles won't be discovered and, most important, the action will happen off-camera. |
Science News
January 20, 2007 |
Science Safari: Global Number Cruncher With a colorful, animated slide show, this Web site introduces visitors to the way vast streams of physics data will flow from the world's most powerful particle accelerator to 7,000 physicists around the world. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Mark Alpert |
Fermilab Looks for Visitors from Another Dimension A prototype liquid-argon detector called ArgoNeuT will pave the way for the MicroBooNE facility at Fermilab |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Philip Taylor |
Inside LHC Launch Party, Not End of World & Scientists Feel Fine Some 400 physicists, engineers and students just finished camping out here at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory through the night, awaiting the birth of an extreme machine so powerful that it could soon reveal what lent mass to the universe in the first place. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Sally Adee |
CERN to Start Up the Large Hadron Collider. Now Here's How It Plans to Stop It How the LHC stops a proton beam that can melt a half ton of copper |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
First Synchrotron for Neutral Molecules Scientists have built and demonstrated the first synchrotron to work on neutral molecules. It could be used to study collisions of cold, slow-moving molecules, allowing chemists to probe their behavior with a resolution impossible to achieve at higher temperatures. |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2006
Lionel Milgrom |
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas. |
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It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Hadjipanayis & Gabay |
The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets Nanotechnology could make rare earth magnets even stronger. |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004 |
Biochip levitates droplets Researchers have devised a way to magnetically levitate particles and droplets that have volumes smaller than one billionth of a milliliter. Labs-on-a-chip is one of many potential uses. |
Technology Research News
December 1, 2004 |
Smart Dust Gets Magnetic One of the main challenges in making labs-on-a-chip is finding ways to control and mix tiny amounts of liquids. Researchers are using minuscule silicon particles to carry out these tasks. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Sandra Upson |
SESAME Synchrotron's Battle for Light In Jordan, a particle accelerator struggles to create a photon beam |
Technology Research News
April 20, 2005 |
Spiral Laser Beam Demoed Researchers have found a way to generate helico-conical, or spiral-shaped light beams. The unusual-shaped beams are potentially useful in trapping and manipulating particles in biological and medical devices, including biochips. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2010
Susan Karlin |
Film Review: The Nature of Existence A new documentary film tackles the big question |
Popular Mechanics
June 16, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Brighter Than Thou: Brookhaven Lab's Newest Particle Accelerator Yesterday, dignitaries gathered at Brookhaven National Laboratory to celebrate the official groundbreaking of a science lab that promises to produce beams of light small enough to aim at resolutions of one nanometer. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Drip Line Slips Away Researchers have squeezed 29 neutrons into an atom of aluminum, bringing into doubt current theories which predicted that it would be too unstable to exist. |
Scientific American
April 2006 |
The Collider Calamity While the Europeans and Japanese build new particle accelerators, the U.S. is poised to shut down its premier colliders at Fermilab and SLAC over the next few years. |
Science News
January 5, 2008 |
Timeline: From the January 1, 1938, issue Industry's giants are industry's children... New "X" particle should have no fixed mass... Expedition to seek age of the Panama Isthmus... |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Combination nanoparticles to fight cancer Korean chemists have assembled a multitalented nanoparticle that can hunt down, treat, and illuminate cancerous cells. |
Chemistry World
August 11, 2014
Hayley Simon |
Supermarket scales for the microscopic world A new method for weighing the dry biomass of individual biological particles has been developed by researchers in the US. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005 |
The Weight of the World The 7000-ton Atlas detector at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the centerpiece of the biggest particle physics experiment ever undertaken. |
AskMen.com
July 3, 2012
Dave Golokhov |
Higgs Boson Scientists may have made a miraculous discovery of something we've been in search of for a generation. No, it's not Waldo, Paris Hilton's soul or who shot Tupac. |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2010
Andy Extance |
Balloon model bursts battery charge gap Over-simplifying chemical processes occurring in batteries has obscured an opportunity to improve energy efficiency, according to Slovenian and German scientists. |
Chemistry World
May 25, 2011
James Urquhart |
Electron remains stubbornly spherical UK scientists have made the most accurate measurements to date of the shape of the electron and found - contrary to predictions that it would be aspherical - that it remains round. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Five Photons Linked Researchers have entangled five photons - a key step in quantum computing which would make it possible to check computations for errors and teleport quantum information within and between computers. |
Technology Research News
August 13, 2003 |
Motion sensor nears quantum limit Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have constructed a device that can measure movements as small as one thousandth of a nanometer, which is one hundredth the size of a hydrogen atom. |
Chemistry World
October 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Physics envy UK government's former chief scientific adviser, surface chemist David King, questioned whether the hunt for the Higgs boson should be a priority for a planet facing potentially catastrophic climate change |
Popular Mechanics
November 24, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Polar Printer Reimagines the Way Magnets Work (With Video!) An invention that can reconfigure the charges of magnets in never-before-seen patterns may lead to new varieties of contact-free attachments and friction-free gears. |
Chemistry World
August 23, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Microscopic barcodes with extra stirring A way to label molecules with colourful barcodes has been developed by chemists in South Korea. |
The Motley Fool
April 25, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Smashing Atoms and the Market A scientist espouses the fine art of growth investing. |
Scientific American
November 2008
George Musser |
New Quantum Weirdness: Balls That Don't Roll Off Cliffs Quantum particles continue to behave in ways traditional particles do not |
