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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.   |
| 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. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
September 26, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Protons in the Hood Hadron Collider becomes a cultural icon among the young on YouTube. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Man-made Black Holes? Can a particle collider be taken too far? |
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
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. |
Science News
July 18, 2009
Paul Fendley |
Five Problems In Physics Without The Definite Article Most physicists don't consider a phenomenon to be understood until there are both repeatable experiments displaying it and a quantitative theoretical description. |
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. |
AskMen.com
July 3, 2012
Dave Golokhov |
Higgs Boson Scientists may have made a miraculous discovery of something we've been in search of for a generation. No, it's not Waldo, Paris Hilton's soul or who shot Tupac. |
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
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. |
| Science News |
Book Review: The Lightness Of Being: Mass, Ether, And The Unification Of Forces By Frank Wilczek Frank Wilczek explores the essence of the matter that makes up the universe - combining the enthusiasm of someone like Jeff Corwin with the thoughtfulness of a David Attenborough. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
Wired
August 18, 2008
John Pavlus |
Ace Quantum Mechanics--the Reality TV Way! With the announcement of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, quantum physics is becoming a conversation topic at parties. Here is your guide to understanding the terms. |
Science News
January 20, 2007 |
Science Safari: Global Number Cruncher With a colorful, animated slide show, this Web site introduces visitors to the way vast streams of physics data will flow from the world's most powerful particle accelerator to 7,000 physicists around the world. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Sally Adee |
Book: The Engineering Inside the Large Hadron Collider Coffee-table physics |
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 |
Scientific American
March 2009
Davide Castelvecchi |
Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles A novel way to rummage for particles in accelerator debris |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Giselle Weiss |
Big Magnet Glitch at World's Top Particle Accelerator Officials at CERN believe they have found a solution to the latest hitch in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider, a state-of-the-art particle accelerator. |
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. |
Wired
March 2003
Jeffrey M. O'Brien |
Speed Demons Fastest Man on Earth: Tim Montgomery... Fastest Radio-Controlled Car: RC 10L30... Fastest Men in the Air: Al Joerz and George Morgan... Fastest Men Anywhere: Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan... Fastest Man-Made Object: Voyager 1... Fastest Particle Accelerator... etc. |
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. |
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
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
October 2012 |
The Cosmological Supercomputer How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again |
Wired
December 2002
Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
Popular Mechanics
April 24, 2008
Erin McCarthy |
Debunking Lost's Science: Hollywood Sci-Fi Behind the Scenes Lost's show runners agonize over the real-life science behind the sci-fi drama as much as they do over six-year plot arcs and love triangles. |
Information Today
April 9, 2015 |
CERN and Elsevier Further Their OA Goals New open access articles cover fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics, and scientific computing. |
