World&#39;s Largest Atom-Smashing Lab Turns 50
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Swiss Federal President Joseph Deiss, French President Jacques Chirac and Spanish King Juan Carlos, from left to right, visit the &quot;Atlas&quot; experimental area and assembly hall for the biggest superconducting magnets ever built, during the official CERN&#39;s
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US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham announced that a supercomputer developed for the nation&#39;s Stockpile Stewardship Program has attained a record breaking performance of 70.
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Fifty years ago, a paper appeared in the journal Physical Review with an answer to a physics puzzle: superconductivity.
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Take a photo tour of mankind's most ambitious physics experiment ever.
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Thousands of samples from the Genesis space capsule have arrived at the Johnson Space Center, where the project&#39;s curator must assemble a giant jigsaw puzzle
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A top Indian nuclear scientist and the scientific mastermind behind the country&#39;s first atomic test, has died in the western city of Bombay (Mumbai).
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are peering into the atomic world with record clarity, developing an electron microscope image that can distinguish the individual, dumbbell-shaped atoms of silicon in a crystal.
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Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe.
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) holds a celebration day on Tuesday to mark 50 years of work. Heads of states, including French President Jacques Chirac and King Juan
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Scientists have produced the sharpest picture yet taken of atoms, with a resolution of roughly one 400-millionth of an inch.
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The 25th anniversary of scanning tunneling microscopes was marked by an international contest to celebrate the most remarkable images created through this atomic-level technology. See some of the contest's most noteworthy submissions in this photo gallery.
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A couple of UC Riverside physicists stabilize antimatter for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds, and the result is an ultrapowerful laser.
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The $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source facility at the Oak Ridge Lab in Tennessee is the world's most powerful accelerator-based source of neutrons for scientific research -- reaching 183 kilowatts this month. The more wattage, the more neutrons, the more researchers can see as they work to make materials lighter, cheaper and stronger.
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To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California, Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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The European research facility which helped shape our view of matter and invented the world wide web is exactly 50 years old.
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Washington: The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that a supercomputer developed for the nation&#39;s nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program has attained a record-breaking performance of 70.
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Frank Wilczek still remembers the physics course he took at the University of Chicago 35 years ago. The course taught by U. of C.&#39;s Peter Freund was so &quot;thrilling,&#39;&#39; he said, that he changed his major from