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01/08/19

Dark Energy Survey completes six-year mission

Scientists have only just begun to study the remarkably detailed map they created of a portion of the sky.

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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.

04/01/07

Ben Laposky: Visual music

A boxy cathode-ray oscilloscope, covered with buttons and knobs and meters and lights, looks like something you know you shouldn't touch.

04/01/07

Positron

A positron is the electron’s antimatter counterpart.

04/01/07

Life service

Somebody who's racked up thousands of hours of community service has either been very bad or very good. SLAC carpenter Michael Hughes has been very, very good.

04/01/07

Masters of improv

World-class detective Angus MacGyver of the hit 1980s television show MacGyver could jury-rig almost anything with duct tape and a pocket knife.

04/01/07

The article at the top of the spires lists of the most-cited articles in high-energy physics is, as always, the Review of Particle Physics (RPP), a compendium of experimental data and reviews put out by the Particle Data Group.

03/01/07

Neutrino invention

Wolfgang Pauli postulated the existence of a neutral, light-weight particle that could save the fundamental law of the conservation of energy.

03/01/07

Traveling detector

For million-dollar components that travel thousands of miles to become part of a particle detector, the most perilous part of the trip might be airport security.

03/01/07

Name of fame

Counting the number of citations of a particular paper is one way to measure its impact and importance. But it is by no means the only gauge.

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