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10/01/20

The “Snowmass” process seeks to identify the most promising questions to explore in future research.

The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

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.

08/23/13

Last week, 13 visitors in superhero attire visited Jefferson Lab as part of an international scavenger hunt.