signal to background
May 2013
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May 17, 2013signal to background: A banner day at the LHCAn artist honors the people and science of the CMS collaboration.
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May 12, 2013signal to background: The top 40 physics hits of 2012The Higgs boson is a popular subject among the most-cited physics papers of 2012, but a particle simulation manual takes the top spot.
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May 8, 2013signal to background: The Fellowship of the RingThe Muon g-2 experiment kicks off this summer with the move of a 50-foot-wide ring-shaped cryostat from New York to Illinois.
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 29, 2013signal to background: Dark Energy Survey launches new photo blogScientists on the Dark Energy Survey share weekly photos taken by and of the world’s most powerful digital camera.
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April 26, 2013signal to background: SLAC’s historic ‘End Station A’ hosts electron beams againA new facility opens for experiments in SLAC’s historic End Station A, where the first evidence for quarks was discovered.
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April 19, 2013signal to background: Q&A with Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs hunterSymmetry sits down with Fabiola Gianotti, who recently finished an eventful four years as spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
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April 11, 2013signal to background: Shall I compare thee to a spinning pulsar?A scientist uses a technique from astronomy to investigate whether William Shakespeare really wrote all of those sonnets.
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April 5, 2013signal to background: CERN offers UN advice on bringing women into scienceIn CERN’s first opportunity to engage directly with a UN organization since it gained observer status, grad students suggested ways to improve the situation of women in science.
March 2013
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March 27, 2013signal to background: Astronomers give Dark Energy Camera rave reviewsEven before the Dark Energy Survey begins, the Dark Energy Camera is exceeding expectations in the astrophysics community.
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March 22, 2013signal to background: Great minds lauded at physics prize ceremonyA crowd full of stars from the field of particle physics—along with one from Hollywood—celebrated recent achievements.
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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 20, 2013signal to background: Research with flair at FameLab 2013Young scientists presented their research in three entertaining minutes at this year’s Swiss semifinal round of Famelab 2013, hosted by CERN.
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March 15, 2013signal to background: A different spinIn physics, spinors are used to plot the spin properties of elementary particles. In Stanford's recreational softball league, it's a whole different story.
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March 11, 2013signal to background: Linear collider focus gets down to sizeIn a display of timing worthy of a blockbuster movie, a multinational team of accelerator physicists focused a beam of electrons down to the tiny size needed for a future linear collider the same week that the linear collider board formed.
February 2013
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February 28, 2013signal to background: Fighting for academic freedom, one scholar at a timeHerman Winick thought making synchrotrons was his life’s work, but life had a few surprises in store.
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February 12, 2013signal to background: Fermilab documentary offers inside lookA new documentary about the people and science of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is now available on YouTube.
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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.
January 2013
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January 30, 2013signal to background: Tiny bubblesA hipster detector searches for the crystalline “plink” of dark matter.
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January 28, 2013signal to background: Dark energy goes to Nerd NiteMore than 250 self-proclaimed nerds pack a bar in the heart of San Francisco to learn something new.
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