05/26/20
A sourdough family started at Fermilab by a graduate student visiting from Texas A&M has continued to expand and flourish.
05/21/20
Physicists are finding ways to contribute to projects related to epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, supporting healthcare systems, and studying public sentiment.
05/18/20
Physicist Cristiano Galbiati shifted focus from the search for dark matter to the shortage of ventilators for COVID-19 patients. The collaboration he began created an easy-to-manufacture ventilator in less than two months.
05/15/20
Experimentalists and theorists search for Higgs bosons escaping as dark matter.
05/07/20
Fermilab guest composer David Ibbett releases a neutrino-inspired video and commentary.
05/04/20
The group Science Responds harnesses physicists’ expertise in fields like data science, statistics and software development to support efforts to respond to COVID-19.
04/30/20
Scientists study rare, one-in-a-trillion heavy boson collisions happening inside the LHC.
04/28/20
Supernova 1987A, the closest supernova observed with modern technology, excited the world more than 30 years ago—and it remains an intriguing subject of study even today.
04/21/20
Amy Catanzano bridges the worlds of poetry and science.
04/14/20
In an imaginative short film, Symmetry writer Sarah Charley investigates the physics of vegetables.
04/07/20
The ADMX experiment trains scientists to deal with real signals—by creating fake ones.
03/30/20
How do you measure a decade of LHC research?
03/24/20
Only 1% of the mass of the proton comes from the Higgs field. ALICE scientists examine a process that could help explain the rest.
03/10/20
Only a fraction of collision events that look like they produce a Higgs boson actually produce a Higgs boson. Luckily, it doesn’t matter.
02/27/20
An extremely fast new detector inside the CMS detector will allow physicists to get a sharper image of particle collisions.
02/25/20
Symmetry chats with scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider to hear about differences between seven different rungs on the academic career ladder.
