October 15, 2018
Going subterranean: Repurposed mines become innovative labs
At about 5 a.m. on a frigid, icy February day in northern Minnesota — the kind of day when it feels like your eyeballs might freeze — a group of …
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June 16, 2015
Laser experiments illuminate landslide physics
How does cereal pour from the box? Why do grains of wheat become wedged inside a hopper? What happens to soil when a slope collapses in a …
January 5, 2012
TV: Discovery Channel grows more curious
At first, it is difficult to distinguish the Discovery Channel’s new show “Curiosity” — in which celebrity-scientists and science-oriented …
January 5, 2012
The Big Turn-On
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 11:30 a.m. EDT — Fourteen years in the making, the $8 billion Large Hadron Collider comes online Wednesday at last (although, …
January 5, 2012
Raindrop study splashes old assumptions
Predicting the weather has been central to human civilization since the Babylonians started studying cloud patterns in 650 B.C. The key to …
January 5, 2012
Electrical failure shuts collider down for the winter
Well, it had a short run: Only nine days after going online Sept. 10, CERN's Large Hadron Collider has already gone south for the winter, due to …
January 5, 2012
Benchmarks: May 29, 1919: Solar eclipse "proves" relativity
On May 29, 1919, the moon’s silhouette crept slowly over the sun, bringing premature night to observers in a broad swath of the Southern …