06/23/17 Howie Day records love song to physics After the musician learned that grad students at CERN had created a parody of his 2004 single “Collide,” he flew to Switzerland to sing it at the LHC.
06/22/17 African School works to develop local expertise Universities in Africa are teaming up to offer free training to students interested in fundamental physics.
06/20/17 A speed trap for dark matter, revisited A NASA rocket experiment could use the Doppler effect to look for signs of dark matter in mysterious X-ray emissions from space.
06/13/17 Fermilab en español (ES) El laboratorio de física de partículas establece una conexión en español.
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.
