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03/01/06

Female-friendly physics departments

This month, thousands of college seniors will be deciding which graduate school to attend. An important issue for female students concerns the climate for women in the various departments.

03/01/06

Chinese high-energy physics

In your recent editorial (Feb. 2006), you mention the upgrade of the facilities at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China, but do not give details of the BEPCII/BESIII construction.

03/01/06

Melissa Alexander: The beauty of Super-K

Recently I discovered that one of the most beautiful expressions of Japanese craftsmanship is neither a vase in a Tokyo museum nor a carving in a Kyoto temple.

03/01/06

James Gillies: CERN strategy

CERN, the laboratory, has its home outside Geneva, Switzerland, but CERN, the organization, is a much broader collaboration, involving all of Europe.

Muons: Emblems of discovery

01/13/26

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