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10/01/09

Grad students follow the data

Worried about getting the experimental data they need to finish their PhDs, about two dozen graduate students have left the long-delayed Large Hadron Collider for experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron. Most of them say they won't be gone for long.

10/01/09

Robert W. Hamm: Industries thrive on particle beams

In a recent commentary ("Bosons and grocery bags", symmetry May 09), Fermilab Director Pier Oddone pointed out that most Americans don’t recognize accelerators, such as those used for medical therapy, as valuable by-products of particle physics research.

10/01/09

Accelerators: Where basic and applied sciences meet

Science is often divided into two parts: the basic, knowledge-for-its-own-sake part and the applied, turn-it-into-products part. This is a division convenient for structuring organizations and funding processes, but doesn’t reflect the real world.