Farewell to the Tevatron

Even as the last protons spin through the most successful particle accelerator in history, physicists hope to conjure one final triumph

Fermilab finds the top quark—sort of

Finding the sixth quark involved the world's most energetic collisions and a cast of thousands

Notable events from the 32-year history of Fermilab's Tevatron, which reigned as the world's most powerful collider for years

The soon-to-be-retired Tevatron collider has uncovered an unexplained signal that could be a previously unknown particle

Europe's Large Hadron Collider is extending its unprecedented experimental run as the U.S. prepares for a disappointing shutdown of its marquee collider

An analysis of Tevatron data shows an asymmetry in the way particles known as neutral B mesons decay

The hunt for the long-sought-after particle continues in the U.S. as the Large Hadron Collider in Europe lies dormant

Radioactivity limits the potential for recycling, except for one infamous particle smasher that never saw the light of day

What's the matter with antimatter? New data may hold the answer.

Last-minute budget cuts stun U.S. physicists

Congress's budget cut decelerates U.S. high-energy physics research

Closer to god: fermilab makes solo top quarks

In this episode, Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his trip inside the Tevatron, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the future of the Tevatron, specifically for neutrino research. Scientific American senior writer Wayt Gibbs reports on the recent CHI2006 conference. CHI is for computer human interface, and the conference is the largest annual meeting of computer scientists who study and invent the ways that humans and computers talk to each other. Wayt interviewed Ed Cutrell, from Microsoft Research's Adaptive Systems Interaction Group, and reviews some of the subjects he came across at the meeting. Finally, computer scientist and chemist Ehud Shapiro talks about DNA computers and his article on the subject in the May issue of Scientific American. Plus, test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.