Inside their hives, bees face a variety of enemies. Parasites transfer diseases. Bacteria infect honey. Fungi overwhelm larvae. These problems can become so rife that the hives are rendered inhospitable.  To save their bee colonies, some beekeepers tu... Continue reading →

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Representatives from two dozen nations met today at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, to officially launch the next phase of the SCOAP3 project, which aims to make all published literature in the field of high-energy physics available to ... Continue reading →

Albert Einstein is rightly known as one of the most prolific scientific geniuses of our time. But in between formulating his theories of Special and General Relativity, establishing the equivalence of matter and energy, making major contributions to qu... Continue reading →

About 60 physicists met at Fermilab this past weekend to discuss an idea that might define the future of neutrino research. The scientists are interested in creating clean, precise beams of neutrinos by sending muons—the more massive cousins of elect... Continue reading →

When artist Julius von Bismarck was a child, he thought CERN was a mysterious lair built deep into a mountain. After his two-month stint at CERN as the first Collide@CERN artist in residence, he has a more realistic image of the laboratory. He also kno... Continue reading →

When it comes to designing an experiment that looks for the universe’s smallest particles, bigger is better. But when the experiment is so big that it spans multiple states, sometimes scientists need to find a way to keep everyone in the loop. That Continue reading →

Hollywood’s finest tradition is to follow up a smash hit with a much-anticipated sequel, and so it will be with the Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab and its Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility. On May 18, 2012, CEBAF shut down after a... Continue reading →