17 April 2024

Paolo Zanella came to the CERN computing group in 1962, just a few years after the first computer had arrived

Source || Part 7 of the CERN70 Series

CERN’s first computer, a huge vacuum-tube Ferranti Mercury, was installed in 1958. It represented the first stage in the evolution of ...

26 March 2024

Madeleine Znoy was one of the people responsible for “scanning” the films from the bubble chambers for interesting events

Source || Part 6 of the CERN70 Series

In the 1960s and 1970s, two techniques for accurately recording the tracks of invisible particles dominated experimental ...

14 March 2024

Francis Farley, a British physicist, joined CERN in 1957. This marked the start of a long and remarkable career in experiments to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

Source || Part 5 of the CERN70 Series

In the 1950s, the muon was still a complete enigma. Physicists ...

Around the O

April 14, 2023 For the first time, scientists have detected neutrinos created by a particle collider, and University of Oregon physicists are part of the international team that made the advance. The discovery opens up a new way to study fundamental building blocks of the universe and ...

What Would Happen if You Fell Into a Black Hole?

  Newsweek TECH & SCIENCE BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 6/18/22 AT 5:00 AM EDT Black holes are some of the most enigmatic and extreme astronomical phenomena that we know about in the universe. But what ...

A physicist’s love of climbing leads to a new kind of class

Around the O  May 20, 2022 – 5:00am The first year Graham Kribs was a faculty member at the University of Oregon, he spent his lunch breaks at the UO Recreation Center taking a rock-climbing ...

Congratulations to Eric Torrence, who won the prestigious Tykeson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Hal Sadofsky (CAS Divisional Dean for Natural Sciences), Bruce Blonigen (Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences) and Richard Taylor (Physics Department Head) presented the well-deserved award ...

They ran the 1st New York City Marathon. Only one returns for the 50th

November 3, 2021 8:54 AM ET AIMEE BERG Larry Trachtenberg, one of the original athletes that completed the first New York City Marathon in 1970, will run the marathon’s 50th edition this year. He kept ...

Zinc-infused proteins are the secret that allows scorpions, spiders and ants to puncture tough skin

The Conversation September 1, 2021 8.10am EDT

The big idea

Many small animals grow their teeth, claws and other “tools” out of materials that are filled with zinc, bromine and manganese, ...

Drawn to Science

Oregon Quarterly  April 7, 2021 Research faculty members and students from the UO’s first-in-the-nation comics studies minor bring complex concepts to life through illustrations STORY BY LEWIS TAYLOR The University of Oregon Science/Comics Interdisciplinary Research Program ...