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.
How do scientists get lead into the LHC? 01/28/25 Sarah Charley Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator?
02/23/17 Instrument finds new earthly purpose Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.
02/10/17 Physics love poem challenge Think you can do better than the Symmetry staff? Send us your poems!
02/07/17 What ended the dark ages of the universe? New experiments will help astronomers uncover the sources that helped make the universe transparent.
02/02/17 Road trip science The Escaramujo Project delivered detector technology by van to eight universities in Latin America.
01/24/17 Five extreme facts about neutron stars Neutron stars have earned their share of superlatives since their discovery in 1967.