Beams are Back in the Large Hadron Collider

First Beam for Large Hadron Collider
An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator—the...

World's biggest physics experiment switched on
The Royal Society has today hailed the switching on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the Cern laboratory in Geneva as a major step in furthering our understanding of the universe around...

Data-Taking Dress Rehearsal Proves World’s Largest...
The world’s largest computing grid has passed its most comprehensive tests to date in anticipation of the restart of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large...

Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil...
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life-not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other...

Biomaterials Science, Second Edition: An Introduction...
The second edition of this bestselling title provides the most up-to-date comprehensive review of all aspects of biomaterials science by providing a balanced, insightful approach to learning...