We humans interact with our physical environment through our senses of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. One of the great challenges in developing...
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Deep Secrets of the Neutrino: Physics Underground
Among the many beautiful, unexpected and sometimes revolutionary discoveries to emerge from subatomic physics, probably none is more bizarre than an elementary particle known...
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Neutrinos Get Under Your Skin
The enigmatic neutrinos are among the most abundant of the tiny particles that make up our universe. They are a billion times more abundant...
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Robots: Fantasy and Reality
A irreverent non-technical review of the history of surprisingly animate machines, from ancient Egypt to current times. Areas include teleoperators for hazardous environments, assembly...
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ZAP! The X-Ray Laser is Born
SLAC has converted its giant particle accelerator into the world's first X-ray laser. By a billion fold the world's brightest X-ray source, the laser...
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As electronics become faster and more powerful and the components of integrated circuits shrink, scientists are bumping up against the limitations imposed by fundamental...
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The Large Hadron Collider: Redefining High Energy
Particle physicists have a description of the forces of nature known as the Standard Model that has successfully withstood decades of testing at laboratories...
