FOREST HILLS, Pa.—The Westinghouse Atom Smasher loomed like a mysterious cast-iron hot-air balloon when Jim Senkewitz was growing up in its shadow in the 1950s. The particle accelerator towered over ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Smack in the middle of where a D.C. developer hopes to build apartments on the Forest Hills-Chalfant border stands a small brick building adorned with a towering steel orb. The ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — You can topple a Pittsburgh structure, but you sure can’t topple Pittsburghers’ fond memories of it. Memories stand tall around here, just as the iconic Westinghouse Atom Smasher did ...

Atom-smashing used to be one of the purest of pure sciences, but it is rapidly grossening toward practicality. Substances made artificially radioactive in atom-smashing machines are used for cancer ...

Atom-smashing machines—once the mysterious toys of theoretical physicists—have recently been put to everyday metallurgical chores: > In assaying ores, Geologists at M.I.T. have announced that when a ...