Six scientists battled in a Minnesota hockey arena to be named the best physics entertainer. Last weekend Ridder Arena—home to the University of Minnesota’s back-to-back-NCAA-championship-winning women’s hockey team—hosted a competition a bit... Continue reading →

A set of twin doors take on two very different purposes at Fermilab and Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. One of the paradoxes of particle physics research is that, in order to study the tiniest bits of matter, scientists must use some of the world Continue reading →

Sound artist Bill Fontana taps into the music of the Large Hadron Collider. When Bill Fontana visits a cafe, he’s one of many customers wearing headphones. To a casual observer, he looks like someone in his own private world, cut off from the life ... Continue reading →

From the output of the "Snowmass" meeting, US particle physicists will chart a path to answering some of science’s most intriguing questions. Today, more than 600 particle physicists from nearly 100 universities and laboratories came ... Continue reading →

The 50-foot-wide electromagnet for the Muon g-2 experiment has completed its five-week journey from New York to Illinois. For the last three nights, a big rig has traveled slowly down the roads of suburban Illinois bearing an American flag and the wa... Continue reading →

Using a new test-beam facility at SLAC, Stony Brook researchers are working to develop the next generation of cutting-edge particle detectors. In nature, quarks don’t seem to like being alone. They bind together with other quarks, and only the most... Continue reading →

Fermilab physicist Todd Johnson spends his work and vacation hours with accelerators. What he produces during each are two very different things. Twice a year, Todd Johnson drives 400 miles from the Fermilab campus in Illinois to a commercial polymer... Continue reading →

For the first time, an experiment has definitively observed the appearance of neutrinos that have changed from one type to another. Physicists have long suspected that strange little particles called neutrinos, which come in three types, can morph fr... Continue reading →