08/26/22 WIRED Where do high-energy cosmic rays come from? A star’s last gasp Researchers compiled data from several telescopes to show that explosive stellar death can generate some of the fastest particles in the universe.
08/25/22 Science News ‘Chameleon’ forces remain elusive in a new dark energy experiment A hypothetical fifth force that morphs based on its environs didn’t turn up.
08/22/22 University of Melbourne Digging deep for dark matter A laboratory at the bottom of a gold mine in rural Victoria could make one of the biggest scientific discoveries ever – proving the existence of dark matter.
08/17/22 Science News Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, a new study suggests Physicists have speculated for decades that protons may also host more massive quarks, called “intrinsic” charm quarks.
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.
12/07/17 The PhD pioneers Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics PhDs within the state of South Dakota.
12/05/17 Radio lab Have a question for Fermilab? Tune in to a Fermilab frequency over the next two weeks.
11/28/17 LHC data: how it’s made In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.
11/22/17 A flight path to physics success Sandra Miarecki went from Air Force pilot to neutrino physicist.
11/21/17 Putting the puzzle together Successful physics collaborations rely on cooperation between people from many different disciplines.
11/14/17 Q&A with Nobel laureate Barry Barish Barish explains how LIGO became the high-achieving experiment it is today.
11/09/17 Fermilab’s 11th employee Fantastical designs elevate physics in works by Fermilab’s first artist.
11/07/17 Something borrowed SLAC engineer Knut Skarpaas designs some of physics’ most challenging machines, finding inspiration in unexpected places.