Every year, particle accelerators play an essential role in scientific discovery, industry and even medicine. But what does it take to make an accelerator run? This video, produced by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, takes you into the department ... Continue reading →

Particle detectors are the eyes of physicists, peering closely into particle events to help us understand the basic laws of nature. To develop the kind of sight needed to view the complex particle events of future experiments, researchers are transform... Continue reading →

Last month, scientists on the MicroBooNE experiment began the construction of a 170-ton liquid argon time projection chamber—a device that, at the size of a school bus, will be the biggest detector of its kind in the United States. More importantly, ... Continue reading →

Ryan Campbell, an ecologist with Fermilab’s Roads and Grounds Group, leans back in his office chair on a hot, humid Illinois summer morning. His gaze fixes on a large aerial photograph of the Fermilab property, on which he’d placed nametags on some... Continue reading →

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics to two scientists who developed groundbreaking experimental methods that are the first steps toward building a new type of supercomputer known as a quantum computer. Thei... Continue reading →

A star found zipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be just what scientists need to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, according to a paper published in today’s issue of Science. Continue reading →

According to chemistry, everything in the universe is made of about 100 elements, as described by the Periodic Table. According to particle physics, those elements can be further divided into subatomic particles. The Standard Model, physics' answer to ... Continue reading →

While some researchers are scanning the heavens with powerful telescopes to detect dark matter or crashing particles together in an effort to create and study its exotic components, Bernard Sadoulet, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawre... Continue reading →