The winners and finalists of this year’s $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize convened to discuss strategies for elevating the public’s awareness and knowledge of theoretical physics. The brightest minds in physics came together on Friday... Continue reading →

How much do you really know about dark matter? Symmetry looks at one of the biggest remaining mysteries in particle physics. Not long after physicists on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN laboratory discovered the Higgs boson, CER... Continue reading →

By tapping into specialized knowledge around the world, the Mu2e collaboration will undertake a first-of-its-kind experiment.  Fermilab’s Mu2e experiment is unlike anything ever attempted. So when the collaboration needed a first-of-its-kind m... Continue reading →

A close look at the assembly of the NOvA near detector reveals a massive yet meticulous process. When the sun rises over Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory each morning, it beams down on a relatively unchanging landscape: 10 square miles of prairi... Continue reading →

Visitors to London’s Science Museum can now take a simulated tour of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider. The largest scientific experiment ever constructed has claimed some new territory—about 8600 square feet in South Kensington, London. The... Continue reading →

Geoffrey West applies his ‘physics way of thinking’ to biology and urban life. Geoffrey West continually searches for underlying principles, the universal laws that explain why things tick.  For many years, that meant working on the scal... Continue reading →

China’s Beijing Electron-Positron Collider seems to be hosting a reunion; members of a poorly understood family of particles keep popping up in their data, which may help clarify the properties of this reclusive family. While much of the world Continue reading →

A panel met at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for promising routes to the study of dark matter, dark energy and other phenomena. Early this week, about 150 particle physicists gathered at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to explore ... Continue reading →