DOE facilities receive praise from Republicans and Democrats alike
In a strong showing of bipartisan support, both Republican and Democrat members of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment offered robust praise for the U.S. Department of Energy national scientific facilities at a hearing last month. Continue reading
Dark-matter experiment moves underground
Sanford Lab celebrates the arrival of the LUX dark-matter experiment deep inside a former mine in South Dakota with today’s live broadcast of the public radio program “Innovation” from LUX’s new home at SURF, and tomorrow’s Sanford Lab scienc... Continue reading
Physicist by day, soul man by night
This Sunday, guitarist Charlie Wayne played for a crowd of about 10,000 with his up-and-coming Chicago soul band. The next morning, he went back to his day job at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where he investigates the cosmos – and answers t... Continue reading
Google Science Fair winner visits CERN during Higgs week
Google Science Fair winner Shree Bose could not have picked a better time to visit CERN. She was there from June 27 to July 4, the day scientists there announced the discovery of a Higgs-like boson. Continue reading
The statistics of scientific discovery
In this video, Fermilab physicist explains how figuring out whether a discovery is real or just a matter of luck is similar to judging the fairness of a pair of dice. It all comes down to statistics. Continue reading
Higgs in perspective; looking back to 1964
To put the length of the search for the Higgs boson in perspective, take a look at what else was happening back in 1964, when theorists first predicted the particle. Continue reading
Photoshop contest: Where have you seen the Higgs?
Early this morning, scientists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced that they have observed a new particle that may eventually prove to be the Higgs boson. Have you spotted the mysterious particle? Submit your photographic evidence! Continue reading
Search for Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider reveals new particle
Physicists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider announced today that they have observed a new particle. Whether the particle has the properties of the predicted Higgs boson remains to be seen. Continue reading
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