07/01/22 Physics World Discovering the Higgs boson: a day in physics like no other Achintya Rao recollects the momentous day 10 years ago when CERN announced it had discovered the Higgs boson.
06/30/22 Nature Physicists spellbound by deepening mystery of muon particle’s magnetism Theoretical predictions move closer to experimental results, but questions remain about possible gaps in the Standard Model of particle physics.
06/24/22 Scientific American How the Higgs boson ruined Peter Higgs’s life A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight
06/17/22 CERN CERN Council declares its intention to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and Belarus at their expiration dates in 2024 CERN was established in the aftermath of World War II to bring nations and people together for the peaceful pursuit of science.
Explain it in 60 seconds: High-Luminosity LHC 02/26/25 Sarah Charley The upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider will allow scientists to better study known phenomena and to search for new ones.
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.
04/18/17 How blue-sky research shapes the future While driven by the desire to pursue curiosity, fundamental investigations are the crucial first step to innovation.
04/10/17 Urban Sketchers visit Fermilab The group brought their on-site drawing practice to the particle physics laboratory.