The search for the Higgs at experiments at the Large Hadron Collider was an international effort involving thousands of people, with physicists and engineers from US institutions playing a significant role throughout. In 2012, the announcement of the... Continue reading →

The technology used to create a new mini-accelerator could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science and medicine. In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers hav... Continue reading →

Millions around the world, both scientists and non-scientists, use Scientific Linux, an operating system developed for particle physics. When a handful of developers at Fermilab modified a computer operating system for use in particle physics, they h... Continue reading →

A virtual tour of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE experiments is now available on Google Street View. Visitors all over the world can now explore CERN’s massive detectors and 1200 meters of the Large Hadron Collider tun... Continue reading →

Fermilab physicists and educators mingled with young adult science enthusiasts at Adler After Dark. Last week, three young physicists looked expectantly at an audience filling an auditorium at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, waiting for the next qu... Continue reading →

Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data. Spurred less by “Eureka!” than by “There’s got to be an easier way,” a group of young physicists at SLAC and Stanford... Continue reading →

In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.  Humanity’s first glimpse of the very deepest part of the ocean seemed disappointing indeed. A small crew had worked for two years... Continue reading →

Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art. Particle physics is a source of inspiration. With its grand yet simple quest... Continue reading →