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Scientists Await Start-Up Of Large Hadron Collider
September 8, 2008 The moment that James Pilcher has been waiting for since 1994 will arrive at 1:30 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 10, when the world's largest scientific instrument is scheduled to begin operation. ... > full story -
Michigan Integral To World's Largest Physics Experiment
September 5, 2008 After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its ... > full story -
Next Stop: The Fourth Dimension, With Large Hadron Collider Experiments
September 3, 2008 How did the universe come to be? What is it made of? What is mass? Can science prove that there are other dimensions? We may have answers soon. On September 10, 2008, the new CERN Large Hadron ... > full story -
Hunt For Elusive Higgs Boson -- Most Highly Sought-After Particle In Physics -- Gets Boost
September 3, 2008 The hunt for the Higgs boson, the most highly sought-after particle in physics, received a boost this month with two new results from the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab in Illinois. ... > full story -
Large Hadron Collider Set To Unveil A New World Of Particle Physics
August 20, 2008 The field of particle physics is poised to enter unknown territory with the startup of a massive new accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider -- in Europe this summer. On Sept. 10, LHC scientists ... > full story -
Chemist Travels World To Study Mysterious Properties Of Neutrinos
August 19, 2008 In the quest to better understand one of nature's most "ghostly" elementary particles -- the neutrino -- scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are spreading their ... > full story -
Students Build And Launch A Sensor Into Space
August 11, 2008 Students built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that, carried by a helium-filled balloon, reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The detector recorded radiation levels at ... > full story -
Next-Generation Computer Antivirus System Developed
August 6, 2008 Antivirus software on your personal computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud computing" approach to malicious software ... > full story -
Stretchable Silicon Camera Next Step To Artificial Retina
August 6, 2008 Digital cameras have transformed the world of photography. Now new technology inspired by the human eye could push the photographic image farther forward by producing improved images with a wider ... > full story -
A First In Integrated Nanowire Sensor Circuitry
August 4, 2008 Scientists have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be ... > full story
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