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07/01/20

For the first time, the LHCb collaboration at CERN has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks.

Testing, testing!

01/15/25

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just successfully completed a series of full-system tests using an engineering test camera.

09/24/13

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.

09/23/13

Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.

09/13/13

Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak.

09/12/13

A brewery near Fermilab honors the arrival of a giant electromagnet.

09/06/13

A Fermilab physicist and TED artists have created a short animation about the most famous description of the Higgs field.

08/29/13

A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory is excited about the proposed International Linear Collider—and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.

08/27/13

The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay would suggest that, by itself, the Standard Model Higgs cannot give mass to neutrinos.

08/26/13

Burning Man offers parallels to—and welcome departures from—the scientific endeavors of physicists who attend the annual event.