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.
04/20/22 Fermilab New accelerator at Fermilab approved for construction start The US Department of Energy has formally approved the start of full construction for the PIP-II project.
04/07/22 Fermilab CDF collaboration at Fermilab announces most precise ever measurement of W boson mass to be in tension with the Standard Model If confirmed, this measurement suggests the potential need for improvements to the Standard Model calculation or extensions to the model.
04/07/22 Science Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves Gamma rays from distant pulsars could help researchers find merging supermassive black holes.
Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino 10/29/24 Chris Patrick Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.
06/06/17 A tale of three cities An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the US.
05/30/17 A brief etymology of particle physics How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
05/26/17 First results from search for a dark light The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
05/16/17 The facts and nothing but the facts At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.
05/09/17 Understanding the unknown universe The authors of We Have No Idea remind us that there are still many unsolved mysteries in science.
05/04/17 Sterile neutrino search hits roadblock at reactors A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.
04/27/17 Did you see it? Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
04/25/17 Archaeology meets particle physics Undergraduates search for hidden tombs in Turkey using cosmic-ray muons.