06/09/20 Nature Thousands of scientists worldwide to go on strike for Black lives Academics and scientific organizations will stop research activities on 10 June to reflect and take action on systemic inequalities in science.
06/08/20 Nature Grieving and frustrated: Black scientists call out racism in the wake of police killings An academic strike is planned for this week, alongside marches and demonstrations worldwide.
05/26/20 Science News A star shredded by a black hole may have spit out an extremely energetic neutrino If true, this would be only the second time such a neutrino has been traced back to its source.
05/26/20 Quanta Growing anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider raise hopes Recent measurements of particles called B mesons deviate from predictions. Alone, each oddity looks like a fluke, but their collective drift is more suggestive.
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.
07/01/13 Big data and the X-ray laser Ultrafast experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source require powerful, unique data systems adapted from particle physics.
06/28/13 Fermilab produces its first potential astronaut Josh Cassada, accepted into NASA’s exclusive 2013 astronaut candidate class, cut his scientific teeth doing particle physics research at Fermilab.
06/25/13 Around the US in 17 labs Chart a course to knowledge with symmetry’s interactive map of all 17 US Department of Energy national laboratories.
06/18/13 Journey from the center of the Earth Subatomic particles streaming from the Earth’s interior carry important evidence of the planet’s origins.
06/14/13 The march of the penguin diagrams More than 30 years ago, a physicist honored a bet by naming a particle decay diagram after an aquatic bird.
06/11/13 Former physicist nurtures innovation Cherie Goodenough finds joy in seeing science research develop into products and applications.
06/06/13 A 10-minute lesson in supersymmetry In two new videos, Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln explains the what and the why of supersymmetry.
06/05/13 The ILC through two lenses Two regions in Japan vying to be the site of the proposed International Linear Collider have produced wildly different promotional videos.