Turns out physicists have their own expression to convey the concept of "slow," and now, thanks to the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO), they know how slow "slow" really is: The flurry of activity during the 13.75 billion years from the Big Bang to us ... Continue reading →

The power of the CAT scan to find tumors or bone fractures has advanced medical science by bringing such ailments to X-ray light, foregoing the need to cut a body open for diagnosis. As particle accelerator research makes its own advances, scientists a... Continue reading →

All particles in nature fall into one of two classes, bosons or fermions. In nature this dichotomy stands firm. But the mathematics reveals the dividing line to be a gradated space where particles can exist as something in between bosons and fermions, ... Continue reading →

Almost everyone has been there: you rush to the airport only to stand in line and watch your plane board at what feels like a snail’s pace. Yet few people take the time to come up with a better solution and even fewer see their idea tested. Frustrati... Continue reading →

Over the weekend, the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider released new results bolstering the Standard Model of particle physics. Continue reading →

Berkeley Lab scientists achieve tunable, high-quality electron beams for laser plasma accelerators Continue reading →

Light sources are the ultimate app for particle physics. Researchers around the world use the powerful X-ray beams that light sources create for materials science, protein structure analysis, historical research, pharmaceutical research and drug develo... Continue reading →