Psychedelic Smash-Up
This may look like a child's Spirograph drawing, but it's actually what scientists at CERN hope to see when the Large Hadron Collider in Europe reaches full smashing power: The decay of that elusive subatomic particle, the Higgs boson. To remember all the technical hiccups and theoretical challenges and end-of-the-world fear-mongering it took just to get to this point, check out the DISCOVER feature article "A Tumultuous Year at the LHC" by physicist Lisa Randall.
Image: CERN