09/30/13 Researchers demonstrate ‘accelerator on a chip’ The technology used to create a new mini-accelerator could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science and medicine.
09/30/13 Physics computing innovation benefits multitude Millions around the world, both scientists and non-scientists, use Scientific Linux, an operating system developed for particle physics.
09/26/13 Google Street View goes underground at LHC A virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE experiments is now available on Google Street View.
09/25/13 Adler Planetarium throws ‘Particle Party’ Fermilab physicists and educators mingled with young adult science enthusiasts at Adler After Dark.
09/25/13 More than a game Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data.
09/24/13 The great physics quest In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.
09/23/13 Artists challenged to depict physics Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.
09/20/13 Scientists expand search for light dark matter Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, will revolutionize our ideas about dark matter.
09/18/13 Just how weak is the weak force? Using a unique technique, the Q-weak collaboration has found the value of the weak force to be in agreement with theory—so far.
09/17/13 South Dakota artists explore dark matter A grassroots group of artists started a gallery project centered on Sanford Lab’s science.
09/13/13 The hunt for microscopic black holes Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak.
09/10/13 ‘Why particle physics matters’ winner announced The readers have spoken: Your favorite explanation of why particle physics matters came from physicist Breese Quinn.
09/06/13 Famous Higgs analogy, illustrated A Fermilab physicist and TED artists have created a short animation about the most famous description of the Higgs field.
09/04/13 Upgraded Fermilab neutrino beam back in business After more than a year of improvements, Fermilab's accelerator complex has begun sending neutrinos to experiments at the lab and in Minnesota.