Kelen Tuttle
May 2013
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May 10, 2013contest: Symmetry challenge: Neutrino oscillation analogySymmetry is on the hunt for the best analogy to describe neutrino oscillation, the process by which a neutrino changes from one flavor to the next.
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May 2, 2013breaking: Dark-matter detector hears first particle popsThe COUPP-60 dark-matter experiment begins recording the trails of bubbles that passing particles form in its detector.
April 2013
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April 30, 2013signal to background: Free from the startSince CERN released the World Wide Web without royalties 20 years ago, the technology has flourished.
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April 18, 2013breaking: Photowalk winners show modern beauty of scienceJudges announce the winners of the 2012 Global Particle Physics Photowalk.
March 2013
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March 26, 2013breaking: BESIII collaboration catches new particleA new particle spotted at China’s Beijing Electron Positron Collider raises more questions than it answers.
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March 21, 2013breaking: Planck reveals new insight into universeThe first cosmology results from the Planck satellite reveal an older universe populated with less dark energy and more matter than expected.
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March 20, 2013signal to background: Meet 63 women in STEM, and countingIn celebration of Women’s History Month, the US Department of Energy is recognizing some of the many women who make a difference in science and technology innovation.
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March 5, 2013application: Gamma cameras see through dense tissueGamma rays, valued by astrophysicists for conveying information about phenomena in space, are also becoming valued by doctors for their ability to uncover cancer.
February 2013
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February 22, 2013breaking: Linear collider plans move forwardA new international organization will guide the development of a $7.78 billion particle accelerator that could be heir to the Large Hadron Collider.
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February 15, 2013breaking: Cosmic rays born in supernova aftermathOne hundred years after the discovery of cosmic rays, a team of particle astrophysicists has definitively determined one source of these abundant yet enigmatic particles.
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February 11, 2013signal to background: Help choose the next iconic ‘Big Science’ imageIt's time to cast your vote for this year's Particle Physics Photowalk winner.
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February 1, 2013breaking: Energy Secretary Steven Chu to step downSteven Chu has announced his decision not to serve a second term as US Secretary of Energy.
January 2013
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January 2, 2013editorial: The discoveries continueThe discoveries of 2012 point the way to more exciting physics in 2013 and the decades beyond.
November 2012
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November 19, 2012breaking: Arrow of time prefers to point forwardTo a single, isolated particle, time’s arrow could work just as well pointing forward as backward. But it doesn’t, says the BaBar collaboration.
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November 12, 2012breaking: BOSS collaboration measures expansion of the universe 11 billion years agoThe BOSS collaboration has looked so far back in time that they observed the period before dark energy began to dominate the largest scales of the universe.
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November 1, 2012breaking: Fermi telescope gazes through fog to count the starsA recent measurement of how many gamma rays make it through a cosmic “fog” of starlight reveals just how many stars there are in the universe.
October 2012
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October 30, 2012signal to background: Video: A synchrotron rescues an ancient warshipRitimukta Sarangi explains how knowledge gained at a light source has helped save wooden artifacts including the Mary Rose, a 500-year-old warship.
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October 25, 2012signal to background: Plasma accelerators: High quality, even by the sliceResearchers at Berkeley Lab have measured the quality of beam produced by a plasma accelerator, revealing that this novel type of accelerator may be better suited for light-source science than previously thought.
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October 24, 2012signal to background: Plasma accelerators: Finding focusAs physicists design new "tabletop" accelerators that power particles with plasma, they also need to reinvent the tools they use to view the beam.
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October 23, 2012breaking: SLAC gets a new directorX-ray scientist Chi-Chang Kao will serve as SLAC's fifth director, assuming the role on November 1.
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