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.
Explain it in 60 seconds: big data 04/15/25 Phil Marshall and Kathryn Jepsen How do you solve a problem like big data?
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.
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.
03/21/17 High-energy visionary Meet Hernán Quintana Godoy, a scientist who helped make Chile central to international astronomy.
03/17/17 Q&A: Dark matter next door? Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.
03/14/17 The life of an accelerator As it evolves, the SLAC linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.
03/10/17 A strength test for the strong force New research could tell us about particle interactions in the early universe and even hint at new physics.
03/07/17 Researchers face engineering puzzle How do you transport 70,000 tons of liquid argon nearly a mile underground?
