Six Earn 2014 Early Career Awards in High Energy Physics
The 2014 Early Career Award recipients include: Eric Dahl (Northwestern University), Peter Graham (Stanford University), Anna Grassellino (Fermilab), James Hirschauer (Fermilab), Stephanie Majewski (University of Oregon), and Xin Qian (Brookhaven National Laboratory).
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The ‘Cosmos’ connection
Science is no longer the wallflower who doesn’t get asked to the dance, writes physicist Glen Crawford in an essay about science outreach past and present.
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Sean Hartnoll receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Sean Hartnoll (Stanford University) was among those honored at the White House as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his innovative interdisciplinary research in high energy string theory applied to condensed matter physics.
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Ten things you might not know about particle accelerators
From accelerators unexpectedly beneath your feet to a ferret that once cleaned accelerator components, Symmetry shares some lesser-known facts about particle accelerators.
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Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Make the Most Precise Measurement Yet of the Expanding Universe
Researchers at Brookhaven and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories contribute to a new view showing the universe just before dark energy began to dominate its expansion.
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SLAC, Stanford Scientists Play Key Roles in Confirming Cosmic Inflation
Two scientists at Stanford University and SLAC made key contributions to the discovery of direct evidence for cosmic inflation – the rapid expansion of the universe in the first instant after the Big Bang.
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International team of LHC and Tevatron scientists announces first joint result
The new world’s best value for the mass of the top quark is a joint finding from four experiments—ATLAS, CDF, CMS and DZero—that together include more than six thousand scientists from over 50 countries
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Particle physics in the United States
More than 150 US universities and laboratories are engaged in particle physics research and technology innovation, playing important roles in the Higgs boson and cosmic inflation discoveries—and the many more revelations still to come.
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Particle Beam Cancer Therapy: The Promise and Challenges
Advances in accelerators built for fundamental physics research have inspired improved cancer treatment facilities. But will one of the most promising—a carbon ion treatment facility—be built in the U.S.?
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Scientists Complete the Top Quark Puzzle
Fermilab researchers have finished a portrait of one of the universe’s fundamental particles.
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NOvA Experiment Sees First Long-distance Neutrinos
Scientists on the world’s longest-distance neutrino experiment announced today that they have seen their first neutrinos.
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Chandrashekhar Joshi Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Chandrashekhar Joshi, distinguished professor of electrical engineering at UCLA, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the development of laser- and beam-driven plasma accelerators.
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