11/07/17 Something borrowed SLAC engineer Knut Skarpaas designs some of physics’ most challenging machines, finding inspiration in unexpected places.
11/06/17 An international celebration of dark matter Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.
10/31/17 How is the Force like dark matter? For Dark Matter Day, scientist and Star Wars fan Dan McKinsey talks dark matter and the Force.
10/26/17 CERN alumna turned deep-sea explorer Grace C. Young is fascinated by fundamental questions about realms both quantum and undersea.
10/24/17 Speak physics: What is a cross section? Cross sections tell physicists how likely particles are to interact in a given way.
10/19/17 Scientists make rare achievement in study of antimatter Scientists on the BASE experiment vastly improved their measurement of a property of protons and antiprotons.
10/16/17 Scientists observe first verified neutron-star collision For the first time, experiments have seen both light and gravitational waves released by a single celestial crash.
10/12/17 Xenon takes a turn in the LHC For the first time, the Large Hadron Collider is accelerating xenon nuclei for experiments.
10/10/17 A play in parallel universes Constellations illustrates the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics—with a love story.
10/05/17 A radio for dark matter Instead of searching for dark matter particles, a new device will search for dark matter waves.
10/03/17 Nobel recognizes gravitational wave discovery Scientists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their roles in creating the LIGO experiment.
09/28/17 Conjuring ghost trains for safety A Fermilab technical specialist recently invented a device that could help alert oncoming trains to large vehicles stuck on the tracks.
09/28/17 Fermilab on display The national laboratory opened usually inaccessible areas of its campus to thousands of visitors to celebrate 50 years of discovery.
