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06/01/10

More universities offer accelerator training

While I was generally pleased by the content and message of Chris Knight's article on accelerator physics as a career in the April 2010 edition of symmetry, I think Chris missed the growing contributions of smaller US universities to the training of the next generation of accelerator physici

06/01/10

Getting down with CO2

When Princeton University geoscientist Catherine Peters learned about a plan to build the world's deepest science laboratory in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota, she saw a chance to tackle an urgent challenge: how to store carbon dioxide deep underground so it can't escape into th

06/01/10

Take me out to the calculator

Baseball fans and physicists share two key loves: numbers and acronyms. While fans pore over statistics on RBIs, OBPs, and ERAs, physicists analyze data from particle accelerators such as RHIC, LHC, and CESR.

06/01/10

National Lab Day puts scientists in the classroom

Pier Oddone wandered past students who were setting up electrical circuits and asked how many of them were considering careers in science. Half raised their hands. “What about a career in physics?” he asked. All but two hands dropped.

06/01/10

Sterilizing medical supplies

Sterilizing equipment, a critical aspect of modern medical care, can be accomplished by bombarding the equipment and its packaging with a beam of electrons or X-rays derived from a particle accelerator.

Photo of John Zaklikowski
06/01/10

John Zaklikowski: From junked part to detector art

Over the years, John Zaklikowski raided his savings account to purchase every mother board, cell phone and floppy disk in sight. Now he’s used them to create artwork modeled on large-scale particle physics experiments.

06/01/10

Science road trip

In the summer of 1928, the young Ernest O. Lawrence set out across America in a Flying Cloud coupe to begin his new life at the University of California, Berkeley.

A collage of images pertaining to the LHC
06/01/10

The LHC decoded

Walk like a physicist, point by point, through three of the displays that highlight scientific and technical milestones from the Large Hadron Collider’'s first months of operation.

06/01/10

Becky Parker: A student research network built on a chip

What inspired you in physics? Was it the curriculum at school? For me it was a lecture about Mars that Carl Sagan gave at the Royal Institution; it was 1977, and he invited the audience—I was watching on the TV—to have tea with him on Mars.