Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments
Excerpt: "Whether they are blasting apart subatomic particles in accelerators, sequencing the genome or analyzing the wobble of a distant star, the experiments that grab the world's attention often cost millions of dollars to execute and produce torrents of data to be processed over months by supercomputers. Some research groups have grown to the size of small companies. But ultimately science comes down to the individual mind grappling with something mysterious."
By George Johnson