After nearly a decade of R&D, the International Linear Collider global design effort crosses the finish line. Yesterday, at a series of events held on three continents, scientists celebrated the completion of the design for a next-generation part... Continue reading →

To deal with increasingly data-hungry experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN has built an addition to its data center—in Budapest. Today in Budapest, CERN marked the completion of an extension of its data center that will eventually inc... Continue reading →

Cherie Goodenough finds joy in seeing science research develop into products and applications. Former physicist Cherie Goodenough is always in startup mode. Through her company, Crux Consulting, in Davis, Calif., Goodenough fosters clean-energy and b... Continue reading →

Reader Emily Conover wins symmetry’s latest contest with her fairy-tale description of neutrino oscillation. Last month we at symmetry challenged readers to send us their best metaphors to describe the strange behavior of subatomic particles ca... Continue reading →

In two new videos, Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln explains the what and the why of supersymmetry. What do the mass of the Higgs boson, the weakness of gravity and the mystery of dark matter have in common? They all might be explained by the principle... Continue reading →

Two regions in Japan vying to be the site of the proposed International Linear Collider have produced wildly different promotional videos. Now that Japan has expressed interest in hosting the International Linear Collider, the next-generation particl... Continue reading →

What if, like the individual threads that form a piece of cloth, all of nature’s forces can be woven together into one comprehensive force? The unification of forces is the idea that it’s possible to view all of nature’s forces as manifesta... Continue reading →

Thirty years ago this month, CERN scientists announced the discovery of the Z boson, an elusive elementary particle that transmits the weak force. On June 1, 1983, physicists at CERN's proton–antiproton collider called a press conference and made a... Continue reading →