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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.

Woman looking at upside down shadow of herself with blue gradient background

04/11/17

What’s left to learn about antimatter?

Experiments at CERN investigate antiparticles.

Group of about 30 people looks up at the camera holding their sketches

04/10/17

Urban Sketchers visit Fermilab

The group brought their on-site drawing practice to the particle physics laboratory.

WIMPs on paper planes flying over houses

04/04/17

WIMPs in the dark matter wind

We know which way the dark matter wind should blow. Now we just have to find it.

Green piece of an accelerator machinery and a plate of fruit on a lit table

04/03/17

Art imitates physics

Artist Chris Henschke’s latest piece inspired by particle physics mixes constancy with unpredictability, the natural with the synthetic.

Black and white collage background with equations, circular collage images of different scientific machines on top

03/28/17

How to make a discovery

Particle physics is a dance between theory and experiment.

Close-up of a person wearing a cleanroom mask and a helmet with a light next to colorful cables.

03/24/17

A new gem inside the CMS detector

This month scientists embedded sophisticated new instruments in the heart of a Large Hadron Collider experiment.

Illustration of Hernán Quintana Godoy meeting people and a classroom

03/21/17

High-energy visionary

Meet Hernán Quintana Godoy, a scientist who helped make Chile central to international astronomy.

Image of the gamma-ray glow in Andromeda captured by the Fermi satellite

03/17/17

Q&A: Dark matter next door?

Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.

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