High-Energy and Particle Physics

No frontrunner among ideas for new SLAC name (Stanford Report)

23 Jul 2008

After 46 years, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) will be getting a new name, one that probably will not include the word "Stanford"—even though the university will continue to run the laboratory.

A 'New Dimension' at the LHC (PhysOrg)

22 Jul 2008

(PhysOrg.com) -- Later this year, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, will begin operating, sending beams of protons hurling around circular tracks in opposite directions at nearly light-speed and then forcing them to collide, producing a spray of energy and matter.

Fermiscan can take a load off your chest (Daily Aztec)

21 Jul 2008

Technology has brought us a long way since the discovery of the DNA strand and the invention of antibiotics. Now, technology will take us in a whole new direction in the quest for convenient and effective medicine. A new technology produced from down under in Australia gives women the chance to detect breast cancer without the inconveniences of mammograms or ultrasounds. Fermiscan technology ...