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Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Erik Sofge |
5 Things You Need to Know About the Large Hadron Collider Now Black holes won't eat anyone alive, particles won't be discovered and, most important, the action will happen off-camera.   |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
3 Large Hadron Collider Headaches (So Far)--and How to Fix Them Less than two weeks ago, the future looked rosy for the world's largest particle accelerator. However, a slew of setbacks put the collider on hold. Here's what's gone wrong so far, and what the CERN team plans to do about it. |
Fast Company
May 2008
Theunis Bates |
Primer: The Big-Bang Machine The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will power up later this summer and start smashing particles together to try to understand the beginnings of the universe. |
Popular Mechanics
August 7, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Large Hadron Collider Turns on Sept. 10, Tests Beam on Weekend This weekend, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will perform preliminary tests in the Large Hadron Collider's "big ring" in anticipation of a Sept. 10 start date. |
Popular Mechanics
December 17, 2009
Jeremy Jacquot |
The LHC Hits 2.36 Trillion Electron Volts--But What Does it Mean? After more than a year of inactivity the Large Hadron Collider, located 300 feet below the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, is finally up and firing on all its superconducting magnets. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Sally Adee |
CERN to Start Up the Large Hadron Collider. Now Here's How It Plans to Stop It How the LHC stops a proton beam that can melt a half ton of copper |
Popular Mechanics
September 10, 2008
Philip Taylor |
Inside LHC Launch Party, Not End of World & Scientists Feel Fine Some 400 physicists, engineers and students just finished camping out here at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory through the night, awaiting the birth of an extreme machine so powerful that it could soon reveal what lent mass to the universe in the first place. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Sally Adee |
Powering the Large Hadron Collider When the LHC starts up tomorrow, it will draw twice the power of nearby Geneva |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
JR Minkel |
A Smashing Bad Time For the United States "In decay" might well describe the state of experimental particle physics in the United States, if the country doesn't make a strong push in coming years to host the world's next big particle smasher. |
Scientific American
April 2006 |
The Collider Calamity While the Europeans and Japanese build new particle accelerators, the U.S. is poised to shut down its premier colliders at Fermilab and SLAC over the next few years. |
InternetNews
September 26, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Protons in the Hood Hadron Collider becomes a cultural icon among the young on YouTube. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005 |
The Weight of the World The 7000-ton Atlas detector at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the centerpiece of the biggest particle physics experiment ever undertaken. |
Popular Mechanics
May 23, 2008
Erik Sofge |
The Next 5 Extreme Research Machines You Need to Know There's room for more than one groundbreaking megamachine in today's scientific pantheon. Around the globe, natural mysteries are under assault from all kinds of colossal devices. |
Wired
April 2004
Richard Martin |
The God Particle and the Grid The physics lab that brought you the Web is reinventing the Internet. Get ready for the atom-smashing, supercomputing, 5-gigabits-per-second Grid Economy. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
World's Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock 'God Particle' The energy released by the Large Hadron Collider could at last nail down that holy grail of contemporary physics, the Higgs boson, and may even finally unveil the secret of dark matter. |
| AskMen.com |
It's Turtles All The Way Down The world's largest atom smasher threw together minuscule particles racing at unheard of speeds in conditions simulating those just after the Big Bang -- a success that kick-started a multi-billion-dollar experiment that could one day explain how the universe began. |
U.S. CPSC
May 22, 2008 |
United Scientific Recalls Magnets Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard Surface paint on the magnets contains high levels of lead, which violates the federal lead paint standard. |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
D-Lib
May 2001 |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory This month's featured collection, the Fermilab website, is not only among the best examples of scientific information dissemination on the web, it is also one of the oldest U.S. websites... |
U.S. CPSC
July 24, 2008 |
Pacific Science Supplies Recalls Magnets Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard The paint on the magnets can contain excess levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Hadjipanayis & Gabay |
The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets Nanotechnology could make rare earth magnets even stronger. |
U.S. CPSC
October 14, 2008 |
Bar Magnets Recalled by Home Science Tools Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard Surface paints on the magnets contain excessive levels of lead, which violates the federal lead paint standard. |
InternetNews
September 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Scientists Set Internet2 Speed Record Caltech, CERN transfer seemingly inconceivable amounts of data at blazing speed. The feat will help boost science and commerce. |
Science News
March 28, 2009 |
The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln conveys the excitement surrounding the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in this non-fictional book. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
Hyneman & Savage |
MythBusters Workshop: Fun with Supermagnets Many people aren't aware of the shenanigans you can get into with ultrapowerful rare-earth magnets, which can have many times the strength of garden-variety magnets... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Giselle Weiss |
CERN's Discerning Detectors Detecting and processing Higgs boson particles has required scientists and engineers to develop silicon pixel sensors for a new kind of detector. The new device is the latest in several generations of electronic particle detectors introduced since the late 1960s. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2005
Dan Bloom |
Seagate's (Hard) Driving Storage The company is first to release a hard drive based on perpendicular recording. |
Technology Research News
December 11, 2002
Eric Smalley |
Microscopic mix strengthens magnet Magnets are usually an either-or proposition. They either generate a strong magnetic field or they hold up well in the presence of external magnetic fields. A method that mixes the two types of magnets at the nanoscale could pave the way for smaller electric motors and generators. |
U.S. CPSC
January 18, 2007 |
Geometix International LLC Recalls MagneBlocks(TM) Toys, Ingested Magnets Pose Aspiration and Intestinal Hazards Tiny magnets inside the building pieces can fall out. Magnets found by young children can be swallowed or aspirated. If more than one magnet is swallowed, the magnets can attract each other and cause intestinal perforation or blockage, which can be fatal. |
U.S. CPSC
July 24, 2008 |
Horseshoe Magnets Recalled by Dowling Magnets Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard The plastic coating on the magnets contains excessive levels of lead, which violates the federal lead paint standard. |
Chemistry World
October 2008
Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Editorial: Physics envy UK government's former chief scientific adviser, surface chemist David King, questioned whether the hunt for the Higgs boson should be a priority for a planet facing potentially catastrophic climate change |
Popular Mechanics
May 15, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Does Angels & Demons Get Antimatter Science Right? (Warning, Spoilers!) When Ron Howard took on Angels & Demons one of the first things he did was visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research where a portion of Dan Brown's 2000 novel takes place. But did his scientific research pay off? |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Willie D. Jones |
World's Most Powerful Magnet Under Construction One hundred tesla without self-destructing |
U.S. CPSC
July 5, 2007 |
Serious Intestinal Injury Prompts Kipp Brothers Recall of Mag Stix Magnetic Building Sets Small magnets inside the plastic sticks can fall out. Magnets found by young children can be swallowed or aspirated. If more than one magnet is swallowed, the magnets can attract each other and cause intestinal perforation or blockage, which can be fatal. |
