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11/01/04

Families of the world

Scientists and their families are finding they must adapt to the increasingly international nature of particle physics. The effects on family life go far beyond jet lag and it's up to individuals to navigate the foreign terrain.

11/01/04

Extreme neutrinos

Searching for the secrets of the universe in the depths of the earth.

11/01/04

The road to Beijing

It was 10 p.m. Thursday in California, midnight Thursday in Chicago, 7 a.m. Friday in Europe, 1 p.m. Friday in China and 2 p.m. Friday in Japan when Jonathan Dorfan stood up to announce the recommendation of the International Technology Recommendation Panel.

11/01/04

The Grid

"Large scale networks of computing resources in the service of the most computationally intensive problems of the future" is one vision of the Grid, being developed by computer scientists and physicists around the globe.

11/01/04

Ray Orbach: Unusually exciting times

These are unusually exciting times to be a physicist. At the dawn of the new millennium, some of the essential questions for humanity have taken a new urgency. What is our universe made of, and how did it get to look the way it does? What is the underlying nature of space and time?

An illustration depicting the concept of antimatter
11/01/04

Antimatter

Antimatter is matter’s natural counterpart.

11/01/04

A curious paradox

A curious paradox faces modern science. Scientists are specializing more than ever before within their fields of research but some of the greatest progress is being made by those who bridge fields using a cross-fertilization of ideas.