03/19/20 Fermilab Three national laboratories achieve record magnetic field for accelerator focusing magnet The newly developed magnet raises the standard for magnets operating in high-energy particle colliders.
03/19/20 Fermilab The power of attraction: magnets in particle accelerators Accelerator magnets bend and shape beams of subatomic particles as they shoot at velocities close to the speed of light.
03/11/20 YouTube: Dr. Becky Finding the guy in the most famous physics picture ever Becky Smethurst visits CERN to look for the “for-scale” man in the most-used photo of the under-construction ATLAS experiment.
03/10/20 Cosmos How quickly is the universe expanding? Two of the methods previously considered to be the most precise and reliable ways to measure this have been pointing us toward different answers.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD 07/25/24 Sarah Charley Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
05/14/13 The cherry pie collider What’s the next step in particle colliders? Symmetry takes a trip into the kitchen pantry to find out.
05/12/13 The top 40 physics hits of 2012 The Higgs boson is a popular subject among the most-cited physics papers of 2012, but a particle simulation manual takes the top spot.
05/08/13 The Fellowship of the Ring The Muon g-2 experiment kicks off this summer with the move of a 50-foot-wide ring-shaped cryostat from New York to Illinois.
05/07/13 A knack for exploring With a solid grounding in physics, Thomas Humphrey shares the fun of discovery at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.
04/30/13 Free from the start Since CERN released the World Wide Web without royalties 20 years ago, the technology has flourished.
04/23/13 Plasma acceleration Like surfers on huge ocean waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies.
04/19/13 Q&A with Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs hunter Symmetry sits down with Fabiola Gianotti, who recently finished an eventful four years as spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.