Today, as vice president of research at the University of Colima in Mexico, Alfredo Ananda’s main occupation is building a more certain route to a research career for Latin American students. He does this by providing them with challenging academics and international connections.
As she grew up in the small town of San Pellegrino in the Italian Alps, three things conspired to make Maria Elena Monzani a physicist: a fascination for outer space, a Nobel Prize and a nuclear disaster. Now she prepares an international team to search for clues to one of the biggest scientific mysteries.
Three new studies show the promise and challenge of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build a future electron-positron collider.
The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.
Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.
Labs around the world open their doors to aesthetic creation.