07/10/20 Ars Technica CERN has discovered a very charming particle Two charm quarks, two anti-charms make for a massive tetraquark.
07/06/20 Fermilab Five thousand eyes on the skies: Scientists choreograph robots to observe distant galaxies The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument features 5000 optical fibers, each one designed to collect light from a single galaxy.
07/02/20 CERN Courier Researchers grapple with XENON1T excess An intriguing low-energy excess of background events recorded by the world’s most sensitive WIMP dark-matter experiment has sparked a series of preprints speculating on its underlying cause.
07/01/20 LHCb discovers a new type of tetraquark For the first time, the LHCb collaboration at CERN has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks.
Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson 09/10/24 Josh Bendavid and Sarah Charley Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.
02/06/14 Virtual field trips take students into the labs Teachers are using Google+ to bring their classes behind the scenes at national laboratories and to teach students about careers in STEM.
02/05/14 Couple's history intertwined with 60 years of CERN A pair of scientists who have been at CERN since almost the very beginning still often find themselves in the laboratory’s cafeteria, arguing physics.
01/31/14 #FollowFriday III: Physicists to follow on Twitter Meet four more physicists who talk about their work on Twitter in symmetry’s third installment of #FollowFriday.
01/30/14 Watch the next big neutrino experiment come together A video from Fermilab highlights some of the many steps needed to build the largest neutrino experiment in the United States.
01/28/14 Quantum entanglement Through ‘spooky action at a distance,’ the properties of two systems remain correlated even after they are separated.
01/24/14 #FollowFriday II: Physicists to follow on Twitter In the second installment in a series, symmetry interviews four more physicists you can follow on Twitter.
01/23/14 Labs work together toward high-luminosity LHC Scientists who need to test parts for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are taking advantage of Fermilab's Test Beam Facility.
01/17/14 #FollowFriday: Physicists to follow on Twitter Want more insight into the world of particle physics? In this series, symmetry recommends scientists to follow on Twitter.