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LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

08/26/24

Lauren Biron

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.

An illustration of a person in a space suit on mars with a reflection of a rover in the helmet

07/02/19

The right stuff

A CERN engineer sees if she has what it takes to live and work on Mars.

An illustration of robot hands typing on a computer

06/25/19

The future of particle accelerators may be autonomous

Particle accelerators are some of the most complicated machines in science. Scientists are working on ways to run them with a diminishing amount of direction from humans.

Tor Raubenheimer

06/18/19

A day in the life of an accelerator designer

Physicist Tor Raubenheimer explores the world by climbing rocks and designing particle accelerators.

Physics Slang

06/11/19

The language of physics

10 more words that mean something different to scientists.

Photograph of hands in light blue rubber gloves holding detector components

06/10/19

Berkeley leans into search for light dark matter

Dark matter could be much lower in mass and slighter in energy than previously thought.

"Physics without Frontiers" class of 2018 group photo

06/06/19

Sharing CERN with Nepal

A dynamic duo at CERN is planting seeds to foster physics research in Nepal.

An illustration of technicians assembling the LSST

06/04/19

Engineering the world’s largest digital camera

Building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope also means solving extraordinary technological challenges.

Konstantinos and George at CERN

05/28/19

Brothers reunited on the ATLAS experiment

Two brothers with very different career paths land on the same project at CERN.

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