06/12/17 How to clean inside the LHC The beam pipes of the LHC need to be so clean, even air molecules count as dirt.
06/08/17 Another year wiser In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.
06/06/17 A tale of three cities An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the US.
06/01/17 Muon magnet’s moment has arrived The Muon g-2 experiment has begun its search for phantom particles with its well-traveled electromagnet.
06/01/17 At LIGO, three’s a trend The third detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes provides a new test of the theory of general relativity.
05/30/17 A brief etymology of particle physics How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
05/26/17 First results from search for a dark light The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
05/16/17 The facts and nothing but the facts At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.
05/09/17 CERN unveils new linear accelerator Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC.
05/09/17 Understanding the unknown universe The authors of We Have No Idea remind us that there are still many unsolved mysteries in science.
05/04/17 Sterile neutrino search hits roadblock at reactors A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.
05/02/17 Mystery glow of Milky Way likely not dark matter According to the Fermi LAT collaboration, the galaxy’s excessive gamma-ray glow likely comes from pulsars, the remains of collapsed ancient stars.
04/27/17 Did you see it? Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
04/25/17 Archaeology meets particle physics Undergraduates search for hidden tombs in Turkey using cosmic-ray muons.
