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On the Cover:
Roz Chast is best known for her cartoons in The New Yorker, more than 800 of which have appeared since 1978. But she’s no stranger to the sciences, having published in both The Sciences and Scientific American. She has written and illustrated several books, most recently Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons 1978–2006, and collaborated with Steve Martin on a children’s book that is scheduled to come out in October.
May 2007:
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Editorial: A Public Hunger for Physics
The general public seems to want particle physics as part of their intellectual, cultural, and personal lives.
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Commentary: Sherry Yennello
Whether scientific meetings provide childcare is much more than a matter of convenience.
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Signal to Background
Say it in Russian; a quick how-to; a zappy show; sports cars and cavities; radioactive people; farm-family reunion; tracking dark energy; name that particle; letters.
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The Search for Dark Energy
What is this stuff that fills the vacuum of space, accelerates the expansion of the universe, and accounts for 70 percent of everything? More than two dozen experiments aim to find out.
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The Great String Debate
When Brian Greene and Lawrence Krauss tangle over string theory, wisecracks fly.
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When the New Neighbor's a Giant
At one potential site for the International Linear Collider, people in the community are getting to know the project years in advance.
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Day in the Life: Katie and Adam Yurkewicz
In the move from Fermilab to CERN, a $10 globe, 100 plastic cookie cutters, and a large collection
of refrigerator magnets are deemed worthy of shipping 4400 miles.
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Gallery: Ken McMullen
He calls his latest work a "very radical new form of cinema" that mingles high-energy physics and astrophysics with tidbits of philosophy and poetry.
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Essay: Launched into Science
"Reading about science was not quite enough. I needed to get up close and personal with the scientists and their heroic experiments." –Pierre R. Schwob
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Logbook: The SLAC Bluebook
A 1169-page treatise documents the development and design of the two-mile-long accelerator operated by Stanford University.
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Explain it in 60 Seconds: String Theory
String theory proposes that the fundamental constituents of the universe are one-dimensional "strings" rather than point-like particles.
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