A panel of senior Japanese officials conclude that it is too early for Japan to proceed toward construction of the ILC and instead call for further research and international support towards the project.
Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovered particles, forces and principles.
As 2016 comes to a close, Symmetry writer Mike Perricone takes us through the latest additions to his collection of popular science books related to particle physics.