The LHC is in the first months of a two-year technical shutdown for maintenance and upgrades. During that time, lucky visitors can secure a place on an underground guided tour.
Hopes that the “proton radius puzzle” would upend particle physics and reveal new laws of nature have now been dashed by a new measurement reported in Science.
Nicole Ackerman thought she would always be a particle physicistuntil a newfound interest in biology drew her toward medical imaging. Her research on Cherenkov radiation, the blue glow from charged particles outracing light, could aid development of cancer treatments.
Want to play with subatomic particles? You could go to work at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC—or you could play a new card game.
Anyone who has ever tried to move a big piece of furniture through a small door knows a few centimeters can mean the difference between success and failure.
On a cool September evening in a cornfield south of Chicago, dozens of telescopes turned skyward for one of the largest star parties in the Midwest. At the center, Fermilab astrophysicist Dan Hooper was describing something no telescope can see.
A day after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, with strong aftershocks still testing surviving buildings, Japanese residents and physicists were offering beds, food, and rides to stranded foreign physicists.