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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. 

05/01/06

U-Ser Jeng: Cycling and beamlines

U-Ser Jeng begins almost every morning with a refreshing 40-minute bike ride, meandering through a mountain road surrounded by the sound of birds singing.

05/01/06

Science meets architecture

A step away from the cars scuttling down the streets of Delhi, precisely arranged on a tame green lawn, is what looks like a giant's playground. Twin cylinders squat at the far end. A pole stands at the center of each, matching the windowed cylinders' radii and heights.

05/01/06

Bodman on Fermilab

A portion of US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman's remarks during his visit to Fermilab on April 7, 2006: "Successful futures are built on past successes, and in this respect, you have every reason to be optimistic and confident about your future."

05/01/06

Asian committee for future accelerators

Few parts of the world would relish a revisiting of conditions from nearly 200 years ago. For Asia, approximating the past could be the key to the future.

Illustration of Standard Model Cube
05/01/06

Standard Model

The Standard Model is the best theory that physicists currently have to describe the building blocks of the universe.

05/01/06

e-Lab outreach in Bangalore

Armed with tin foil, GPS units, and sheets of black paper, two Fermilab educators headed to Bangalore to help high-school and college teachers set up a detector at a local planetarium.

05/01/06

KEK's ambitious future

Japan's high-energy physics laboratory KEK is undergoing a transition as it expands its science program with upgraded and new facilities.

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