Jefferson Lab's Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility will return with double the energy and a host of other enhancements designed to delve even deeper into the structure of matter.
The Department of Energy has given its first stage of approval for plans for the United States to participate in detector upgrades at the Large Hadron Collider.
For the first time, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have collided protons with lead ions, a feat that will give them insight into the quark-gluon plasma.
Neutrinos are a mystery to physicists. They exist in three different flavors and mass states and may be able to give hints about the origins of the matter-dominated universe.
A new generation of computer scientists is applying unique skills learned in particle physics to tough problems in industry, working on everything from high-efficiency light bulbs to Internet search engines.