03/29/23 CERN A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023 Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season.
03/24/23 LHC experiments see four top quarks The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.
03/22/23 CERN New LHC experiments enter uncharted territory The first observation of collider neutrinos by FASER and SND at the LHC paves the way for exploring new physics scenarios.
03/22/23 SLAC Q&A: How to make computing more sustainable SLAC researcher Sadasivan Shankar talks about a new roadmap that will help researchers improve the energy efficiency of computing, from devices like cellphones to artificial intelligence.
Muons: Emblems of discovery 01/13/26 Diana Kwon Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.
11/14/17 Q&A with Nobel laureate Barry Barish Barish explains how LIGO became the high-achieving experiment it is today.
11/09/17 Fermilab’s 11th employee Fantastical designs elevate physics in works by Fermilab’s first artist.
11/07/17 Something borrowed SLAC engineer Knut Skarpaas designs some of physics’ most challenging machines, finding inspiration in unexpected places.
11/06/17 An international celebration of dark matter Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.
10/31/17 How is the Force like dark matter? For Dark Matter Day, scientist and Star Wars fan Dan McKinsey talks dark matter and the Force.
10/26/17 CERN alumna turned deep-sea explorer Grace C. Young is fascinated by fundamental questions about realms both quantum and undersea.
10/24/17 Speak physics: What is a cross section? Cross sections tell physicists how likely particles are to interact in a given way.
10/10/17 A play in parallel universes Constellations illustrates the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics—with a love story.