07/07/22 Science Dark matter hunt heats up with first result from world’s biggest detector With 7 tons of liquid xenon, the LZ experiment leads three-way race to find WIMP particles.
07/07/22 Berkeley Lab Berkeley Lab researchers record successful startup of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility In a paper posted online today on the experiment’s website, LZ researchers report that with the initial run, LZ is already the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector.
07/05/22 CERN LHCb discovers three new exotic particles The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks.”
07/04/22 Nature Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle Physicists are celebrating 10 years since the Higgs boson’s discovery. But many of its properties remain mysterious.
The quantum chase 11/26/24 Laura Dattaro Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider.
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.
09/08/17 Detectors in the dirt A humidity and temperature monitor developed for CMS finds a new home in Lebanon.