Image: Yasuhiro Sugimoto An NHK television news crew followed around ILC scientists for two days last week as they visited proposed sites for building the ILC in Japan. NHK’s five-minute segment appeared on the 7 a.m. news, reaching an estimated 30 million homes. Scientists were excited to be part of the Japanese news media. Here, […]
Mapping the ILC
The ‘international’ in ‘International Linear Collider’ isn’t just a part of a name. The ILC is demonstrably global, involving thousands of scientists from the Americas, Asia and Europe in accelerator activity, detector research and physics pursuits. The map below is a picture of ILC activity around the world. Visit the map webpage and click around. […]
Breaking ground for IARC
Image: Reidar Hahn Just before the holiday, members of the US and Illinois governments gathered at Fermilab for a groundbreaking ceremony to officially begin construction on the future Illinois Accelerator Research Center, or IARC. From left to right: Bob Kephart, IARC project director; Jim Siegrist, associate director of the Office of Science for the DOE […]
Quiltwork event
Quilt: Susan Jackan Photograph: Cindy Arnold Happy New Year! Perhaps this year will bring a discovery resembling the event being depicted on this bright, bursting-with-energy quilt. Artist Susan Jackan fused and machine-embroidered this quilted depiction of a Higgs event, titled The Heart of the Matter. Stitched and fabric art works of scientific scenes, phenomena and […]
Atwitter over Higgs
The Tuesday twitter chatter over CERN’s Higgs news was nonstop, enough to prompt New Scientist to remind us, in a tweet about the Durban conference, “it’s not ALL about the #Higgs you know”.
Japanese delegation explores European labs
Image: DESY A delegation from the prefectures Fukuoka and Saga on the Japanese island Kyushu visited two European labs, CERN and DESY, last week to learn about existing research infrastructures and the labs’ experiences with management, administration, local communication and a whole lot more. The region is one of two possible Japanese sites for the […]