Big science
China's Proposed Particle Accelerator Will Be Double the Length of the LHC
Physics is hardly done studying the Higgs boson.
The Soviet Scientist Who Dreamed of Melting the Arctic with a 55-Mile-Long Dam
As much as we worry about climate change today, a warm, melted Arctic was actually a dream of geo-engineers like Petr Borisov since at least the 19th century.
The Soviet Scientist Who Dreamed of Melting the Arctic with a 55 Mile Dam
As much as we worry about climate change today, a warm, melted Arctic was actually a dream of geoengineers since at least the 19th century.
Don't Take the Real Walking Tour of the Mysterious Jet Propulsion Lab
It'll take you nearly a day and a walking distance of over 50 miles. That's why.
The U.S.'s Insane Attempt to Build a Harbor with a Two Megaton Nuclear Bomb
The AEC almost destroyed an Alaska town in its attempt to build a nuclear shovel.
Motherboard TV: A Death on the Frontier
The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the...
Why America's Higgs Party Won't Be a Blowout: Fermilab’s Rob Roser on the View from the Tevatron
Tomorrow, when the world hears a giant announcement about the Higgs boson from scientists at Europe’s CERN laboratory, they might not notice its American accomplice. On Monday, the Fermi National Laboratory, or Fermilab, which is situated in the middle...