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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.   |
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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. |
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. |
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 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 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... |
| 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. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
Scientific American
August 2006
Alexander Hellemans |
The Geometer of Particle Physics Alain Connes's noncommutative geometry offers an alternative to string theory. In fact, being directly testable, it may be better than string theory. |
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. |
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. |
Science News
April 13, 2002 |
TimeLine: April 9, 1932 issue Spiders' eggs form pattern like mosaic of pebbles... Super-sensitivity of new research tool is confirmed... Light velocity is key to other numerical constants... European scientists study neutron, latest atomic part... |
Science News
December 1, 2007 |
Timeline: From the November 27, 1937, issue Atom smasher... First estimate of size of new subatomic particle... Past climatic changes shown by pollen in bogs... |
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
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Science News
July 4, 2009 |
Intel ISEF Discussion Panel Nobelists to students: Being wrong may be just right |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Sally Adee |
Book: The Engineering Inside the Large Hadron Collider Coffee-table physics |
Science News
January 19, 2008 |
Timeline: From the January 15, 1938, issue Radio is latest aid in battle against snow... Mass of new X-particles may have a wide range... Extinct mammoth was nearly 18 feet in length... |
InternetNews
September 26, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Protons in the Hood Hadron Collider becomes a cultural icon among the young on YouTube. |
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. |
Science News
August 31, 2002 |
TimeLine: August 27, 1932 Russians dedicate world's largest power plant... New theory explains radioactive disintegration... New isotopes predicted with neutrons as "bricks" |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
A Very Complicated Discovery Complexity rules in Discovery Holding's third-quarter results. Investors, take note. |
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 |
Science News
July 16, 2005 |
From the July 13, 1935, Issue Soundproofing Gives Wall Look of Underground Cave... Professor Albert Einstein Announces a New Theory... Expansion of Universe Sole Explanation of Red Shift... |
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. |
Science News
June 2, 2007 |
Timeline: From the May 29, 1937, Issue Age of "Minnesota Girl" is Mystery to Scientists... Attempt to Split Neutron a Failure at Cavendish... Catalase, Mystery Stuff of Cells, is Crystallized... |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
Wired
February 2003
Oliver Morton |
Deep Impact It came, it seems, from outer space -- and it did so quickly. Mysterious objects from outer space are tearing their way through Earth -- and shaking up the physics world. |
Science News
March 1, 2003 |
TimeLine: February 25, 1933 Adam and Eve in the oldest city... 'Positron' confirmed as new particle of matter... Two new kinds of mercury discovered by Briton |
Science News
March 8, 2003 |
TimeLine: March 4, 1933 Fish of different "feather" often flock together... Neutron shown as elementary particle, not combination... Known oil in ground equals petroleum already produced |
Chemistry World
August 17, 2012
Bibiana Campos Seijo |
What will August bring? With many already enjoying their breaks or counting the days to some well deserved time away from the office or the lab, I wasn't expecting to have much to report during July and August. However, July has proven me wrong. |
AskMen.com
Jake Brennan |
Why Do We Care About Paris Hilton? Paris Hilton is practically the definition of pure celebrity: someone famous for nothing but being famous. |
Science News
March 9, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 5, 1932 Weird leather costumes protect electric workers... Neutron, atomic brick, may solve mystery of cosmic rays... Solid matter composed of numerous atoms in blocks... |
