Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, will revolutionize our ideas about dark matter. After seeing possible hints of surprisingly light dark matter earlier this year, scientists on th... Continue reading →

Using a unique technique, the Q-weak collaboration has found the value of the weak force to be in agreement with theory—so far. In an early analysis of its data, the Q-weak collaboration, based at Jefferson Lab in Virginia, has determined that ... Continue reading →

When a grassroots group of artists started a gallery project centered on Sanford Lab's science, Bill Harlan, the communications director at the South Dakota underground lab, was pleasantly surprised. Scientists at the Sanford Under... Continue reading →

Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak. The energy required for a black hole like the one at the center of our galaxy to form—the amount contai... Continue reading →

A brewery near Fermilab honors the arrival of a giant electromagnet. Every once and a while, a conversation at a pub wanders into big-questions-about-the-universe territory. When that happens at Two Brothers Tap House in Warrenville, Ill., a physicis... Continue reading →

The readers have spoken: Your favorite explanation of why particle physics matters came from physicist Breese Quinn. At a major particle physics planning meeting this summer, a couple of dozen physicists volunteered to speak on camera about why they ... Continue reading →

A Fermilab physicist and TED artists have created a short animation about the most famous description of the Higgs field. About a decade ago, UK Science Minister William Waldegrave announced he would award a bottle of champagne to the physicist who c... Continue reading →

After more than a year of improvements, Fermilab's accelerator complex has begun sending neutrinos to experiments at the lab and in Minnesota. Today, for the first time, Fermilab switched on its newly revamped neutrino beam, soon to be one of the... Continue reading →