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Conceptual illustration of a Higgs particle doing research while suspended in mid air

‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

07/16/13

Force carriers

Particles communicate with one another through force carriers.

07/09/13

Detecting opportunity, in particle physics and beyond

Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.

Photo of Scott Fahlman holding smiley face sign

07/08/13

Physics and the birth of the emoticon

Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.

Illustration of Detective Planck using magnifying glass over finger print

07/02/13

Secrets of the early universe

Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.

Photo of LCLS engineering physicist Silke Nelson, right, shows intern Tyler Couto how to operate a controls system

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.

Illustration of Deconstruction: National Labs

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.

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