08/10/22 Fermilab First demonstration of a new particle beam technology at Fermilab Scientists at Fermilab used the lab’s newest storage ring, the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator, to demonstrate and explore a new kind of beam cooling technology.
08/09/22 Quanta How the physics of nothing underlies everything The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.
08/08/22 Nature Particle physicists want to build the world’s first muon collider The accelerator would smash together this heavier version of the electron and, researchers hope, discover new particles.
08/01/22 Gizmodo Physicists discover oldest dark matter yet with lensed microwaves Lensing of the cosmic microwave background indicates 12-billion-year-old galaxies had dark matter.
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.
11/06/17 An international celebration of dark matter Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.
10/31/17 How is the Force like dark matter? For Dark Matter Day, scientist and Star Wars fan Dan McKinsey talks dark matter and the Force.
10/26/17 CERN alumna turned deep-sea explorer Grace C. Young is fascinated by fundamental questions about realms both quantum and undersea.
10/24/17 Speak physics: What is a cross section? Cross sections tell physicists how likely particles are to interact in a given way.
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.