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LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

08/26/24

Lauren Biron

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.

08/11/15

Testing the nature of neutrinos

The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is looking for a sign that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

Illustration of particle generation tree "Three Generations of Matter"

08/05/15

The mystery of particle generations

Why are there three almost identical copies of each particle of matter?

Split screen of H on small stage with a "The Supersymmetric Higgs" title above, H made of smaller H's "The Composite Higgs"

07/30/15

One Higgs is the loneliest number

Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson in 2012. Now they’re looking for more.

Illustration of multiverse, Earth at the center of spilt different colored earths resounding out like an echo

07/28/15

Is this the only universe?

Our universe could be just one small piece of a bubbling multiverse.

07/21/15

The Standard Model of particle physics

Explore the elementary particles that make up our universe.

07/15/15

Miraculous WIMPs

What are WIMPs, and what makes them such popular dark matter candidates?

07/09/15

More data, no problem

Scientists are ready to handle the increased data of the current run of the Large Hadron Collider.

07/07/15

What is dark energy?

It’s everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is.

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