Muons: Emblems of discovery

Around the world in eight goofy minutes

Many a college student has built a room around a sturdy coffee table made from a cast-off wooden cable spool. But when two University of Wisconsin graduate students went to the South Pole they found spools put to a different use: as chariot wheels

A little wine with that physics?

Friends and colleagues of particle physicist Bill Wisniewski know him as a wine connoisseur.

A recycling tale that's hard to top

There's luck, and then there is LUCK. Brenna Flaugher has the latter.

Are we there yet?

With the Large Hadron Collider up and running, expectations are high: Shouldn't discoveries start pouring in? These things don't happen overnight. We trace the long, careful path from intriguing data to official discovery.

A field where jobs go begging

With a growing demand for particle accelerators in science, medicine, and industry, accelerator science is in desperate need of skilled specialists.

Ancient winds blow anew at IceCube

Scientists studying global warming hope to use dust buried in Antarctic ice formations to determine how fast the winds blew as many as 90,000 years ago.

Neutrino oscillation

In June 1998, Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo presented strong evidence that neutrinos behave differently than predicted by the Standard Model of particles: The three known types of neutrinos apparently transform into each other, a phenomenon known as oscillation.

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