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.
Don’t call it toponium 04/01/25 Sarah Charley A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
11/08/16 The origins of dark matter Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.
11/03/16 Is there a dark energy particle? A theoretical particle that adapts to its surroundings could explain the accelerating expansion of our universe.
10/31/16 In search of a parallel universe What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?
10/27/16 A bright idea Can a biochemistry technique win the battle against background for scientists studying the nature of neutrinos?
10/25/16 A primer on gravitational-wave detectors Physicists are searching for gravitational waves all across the spectrum.
10/12/16 Citizen scientists join search for gravitational waves A new project pairs volunteers and machine learning to sort through data from LIGO.