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Muons: Emblems of discovery

01/13/26

Diana Kwon

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

07/09/13

Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.

07/08/13

Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.

07/02/13

Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.

07/01/13

Ultrafast experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source require powerful, unique data systems adapted from particle physics.

06/28/13

Josh Cassada, accepted into NASA’s exclusive 2013 astronaut candidate class, cut his scientific teeth doing particle physics research at Fermilab.

06/25/13

Chart a course to knowledge with symmetry’s interactive map of all 17 US Department of Energy national laboratories.

06/18/13

Subatomic particles streaming from the Earth’s interior carry important evidence of the planet’s origins.

06/14/13

More than 30 years ago, a physicist honored a bet by naming a particle decay diagram after an aquatic bird.