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Small science and the future of particle physics

01/07/25

R.M. Davis

A proposed funding program for small- and medium-scale projects reveals insights into the science, logistical challenges, and future of particle physics research.

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06/14/16

The neutrino turns 60

Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.

Neutrino cocktails

06/07/16

The neutrino cocktail

Neutrinos are a puzzling mixture of three flavors and three masses. Scientists want to measure them down to the last drop.

Four part graphic of man with hammer cracking open spheres, moves on to next, then taps third, which says "thunk"

06/02/16

What is a “particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

Illustration of 1,000 meters below, men working on pushing ruler into ground

05/31/16

1,000 meters below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

Group of four singers playing guitar singing "we are stardust" with low-mass particle above

05/26/16

Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom

Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.

Lead Image: Of bisons and bosons

05/24/16

Of bison and bosons

What are all of the symbols in Fermilab’s unofficial seal?

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05/19/16

The Planck scale

The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.

Photo of James Lead with "Ask symmetry" for Why do objects feel solid? article

05/17/16

Why do objects feel solid?

The way you think about atoms may not be quite right.

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