05/10/22 Scientific American New record-breaking simulation sheds light on ‘cosmic dawn’ THESAN—the largest, most detailed computer model of the universe’s first billion years yet made—is helping set expectations for observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
05/05/22 Quanta Podcast: Where do space, time and gravity come from? Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host Steven Strogatz.
04/27/22 Scientific American Large Hadron Collider seeks new particles after major upgrade Long-awaited boosts to the world’s most powerful collider could spur breakthroughs in the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model.
04/26/22 Gizmodo The Large Hadron Collider rebooted and immediately broke a world record The newly upgraded particle collider just shot protons to higher energies than ever before.
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.
10/10/17 A play in parallel universes Constellations illustrates the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics—with a love story.
10/05/17 A radio for dark matter Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves.
09/28/17 Conjuring ghost trains for safety A Fermilab technical specialist recently invented a device that could help alert oncoming trains to large vehicles stuck on the tracks.
09/28/17 Fermilab on display The national laboratory opened usually inaccessible areas of its campus to thousands of visitors to celebrate 50 years of discovery.
09/26/17 Shining with possibility As Jordan-based SESAME nears its first experiments, members are connecting in new ways.
09/19/17 50 years of stories To celebrate a half-century of discovery, Fermilab has been gathering tales of life at the lab.
09/15/17 SENSEI searches for light dark matter Technology proposed 30 years ago to search for dark matter is finally seeing the light.
09/12/17 Clearing a path to the stars Astronomers are at the forefront of the fight against light pollution, which can obscure our view of the cosmos.