More than 300 scientists who study the sky in the high-powered light of gamma rays came together last week for five days of presentations, meetings and the chance to compare notes at the Fourth International Fermi Symposium. Acronyms flew thick and fas... Continue reading →

In September, postdoc Hugh Lippincott prepared for a roadtrip that would take him and physicist Erik Ramberg northeast from their starting point near Chicago through Michigan and across the Canadian border. He stocked a cargo van they rented for the oc... Continue reading →

Physicist Milind Diwan of Brookhaven National Laboratory has devoted much time and energy to neutrino research over the years, but perhaps never so literally as he did last week. Continue reading →

Using data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has determined the density of stars in the universe: 1.4 stars per 100 billion cubic light-years. Counting all of the stars in the universe is no small task. To ar... Continue reading →

About 30 scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University threw caution—and, sometimes, their dignity—to the wind last week during a two-day science communication workshop sponsored by the Kavli Foundation. Continue reading →

It’s a story of archeology, chemistry and physics coming together to preserve an artifact unlike any other—a story made possible by light sources, accelerator-based machines that produce exceptionally intense beams of X-rays. Nearly 500 years ago, ... Continue reading →

On July 4, scientists around the world popped open champagne bottles and toasted the culmination of nearly five decades of research. They had discovered a new particle, one that looked awfully similar to the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs boson has... Continue reading →

A treasure trove of dark-matter detectors rests within the deep reaches of Italy's Apennine Mountains as part of Gran Sasso National Laboratory. The mountains shield the detectors from cosmic rays, making them highly sensitive to dark-matter particles. Continue reading →