This month, symmetry brings the Standard Model to life explaining the importance of the muon, describes a promising new tool for detecting pre-cancerous tissue, catches glimpse of a cartoon character in the Tevatron tunnel, and watches a theater perfor... Continue reading →

Wednesday, May 30, marked the official opening of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 4,850 feet down in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota. Continue reading →

This month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technology for the Muon g-2 experiment with a total of $2.5 ... Continue reading →

The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution. Continue reading →

The elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and still in operation. The other is SNOLAB, a large undergr... Continue reading →

Tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Breakthrough Office Hours, use the hashtag #labchat. Continue reading →

Researchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water. Continue reading →