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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.   |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
The LHC Hits 2.36 Trillion Electron Volts--But What Does it Mean? After more than a year of inactivity the Large Hadron Collider, located 300 feet below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, is finally up and firing on all its superconducting magnets. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle' The energy released by the Large Hadron Collider could at last nail down that holy grail of contemporary physics, the Higgs boson, and may even finally unveil the secret of dark matter. |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
3 Large Hadron Collider Headaches (So Far)--and How to Fix Them Less than two weeks ago, the future looked rosy for the world's largest particle accelerator. However, a slew of setbacks put the collider on hold. Here's what's gone wrong so far, and what the CERN team plans to do about it. |
| AskMen.com |
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. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Giselle Weiss |
Big Magnet Glitch at World's Top Particle Accelerator Officials at CERN believe they have found a solution to the latest hitch in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider, a state-of-the-art particle accelerator. |
Scientific American
July 31, 2006
Mark Alpert |
The Neutrino Frontier Scientists are fascinated by neutrino oscillations because they may reveal phenomena that cannot be explained by the Standard Model, the highly successful but incomplete theory of particle physics. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Giselle Weiss |
CERN's Discerning Detectors Detecting and processing Higgs boson particles has required scientists and engineers to develop silicon pixel sensors for a new kind of detector. The new device is the latest in several generations of electronic particle detectors introduced since the late 1960s. |
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 |
Wired
April 2004
Richard Martin |
The God Particle and the Grid The physics lab that brought you the Web is reinventing the Internet. Get ready for the atom-smashing, supercomputing, 5-gigabits-per-second Grid Economy. |
InternetNews
September 26, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Protons in the Hood Hadron Collider becomes a cultural icon among the young on YouTube. |
Popular Mechanics
May 23, 2008
Erik Sofge |
The Next 5 Extreme Research Machines You Need to Know There's room for more than one groundbreaking megamachine in today's scientific pantheon. Around the globe, natural mysteries are under assault from all kinds of colossal devices. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Sally Adee |
Powering the Large Hadron Collider When the LHC starts up tomorrow, it will draw twice the power of nearby Geneva |
D-Lib
May 2001 |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory This month's featured collection, the Fermilab website, is not only among the best examples of scientific information dissemination on the web, it is also one of the oldest U.S. websites... |
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. |
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. |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln conveys the excitement surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in this non-fictional book. |
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 |
InternetNews
September 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Scientists Set Internet2 Speed Record Caltech, CERN transfer seemingly inconceivable amounts of data at blazing speed. The feat will help boost science and commerce. |
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
May 3, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Particle Physics Gets Smaller Plans for a prototype of an unusually simple, small particle accelerator have been unveiled by the University of Manchester. |
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 |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Sally Adee |
Book: The Engineering Inside the Large Hadron Collider Coffee-table physics |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Does Angels & Demons Get Antimatter Science Right? (Warning, Spoilers!) When Ron Howard took on Angels & Demons one of the first things he did was visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research where a portion of Dan Brown's 2000 novel takes place. But did his scientific research pay off? |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
David Kushner |
Time Tunnels Meet Warped Passages In a twist of timing unto itself, the DVD release of The Time Tunnel comes when the real science of warped passages is making waves. Warped Passages is the trippy and groundbreaking book on the hidden dimensions of the universe by Harvard physicist Lisa Randall. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
John Pavlus |
Ace Quantum Mechanics--the Reality TV Way! With the announcement of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, quantum physics is becoming a conversation topic at parties. Here is your guide to understanding the terms. |
| Science News |
Book Review: The Lightness Of Being: Mass, Ether, And The Unification Of Forces By Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek explores the essence of the matter that makes up the universe - combining the enthusiasm of someone like Jeff Corwin with the thoughtfulness of a David Attenborough. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Time Travel Great minds have doubted time travel in the past, only to admit that the possibility simply cannot be excluded. |
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. |
Scientific American
October 2008
Michelle Press |
Reviews: Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique Review of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory and Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique |
Information Today
May 12, 2015 |
CERN and U.S. Strengthen Partnership CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) made an agreement with the U.S. to renew their collaboration in particle physics and advanced computing. |
Wired
March 2003
Jeffrey M. O'Brien |
Speed Demons Fastest Man on Earth: Tim Montgomery... Fastest Radio-Controlled Car: RC 10L30... Fastest Men in the Air: Al Joerz and George Morgan... Fastest Men Anywhere: Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan... Fastest Man-Made Object: Voyager 1... Fastest Particle Accelerator... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
November 29, 2007
Joe Pappalardo |
Lasers of the Hidden Temple: Cosmos CAT Scan Digs for Ruins A University of Texas professor has come up with a novel idea that harnesses the forces of the cosmos to locate temples, vaults and other long-hidden structures. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
April 24, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
Debunking Lost's Science: Hollywood Sci-Fi Behind the Scenes Lost's show runners agonize over the real-life science behind the sci-fi drama as much as they do over six-year plot arcs and love triangles. |
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 |
