latest news

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25

Sarah Charley

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

Close-up of a person wearing a cleanroom mask and a helmet with a light next to colorful cables.

03/24/17

A new gem inside the CMS detector

This month scientists embedded sophisticated new instruments in the heart of a Large Hadron Collider experiment.

Illustration of Hernán Quintana Godoy meeting people and a classroom

03/21/17

High-energy visionary

Meet Hernán Quintana Godoy, a scientist who helped make Chile central to international astronomy.

Image of the gamma-ray glow in Andromeda captured by the Fermi satellite

03/17/17

Q&A: Dark matter next door?

Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.

03/14/17

The life of an accelerator

As it evolves, the SLAC linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.

particle hitting a carnival strength test with mallet, sign "test your strength!"

03/10/17

A strength test for the strong force

New research could tell us about particle interactions in the early universe and even hint at new physics.

Illustration of transportation of 70,000 tons of liquid argon nearly a mile underground

03/07/17

Researchers face engineering puzzle

How do you transport 70,000 tons of liquid argon nearly a mile underground?

Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer gives a smiling Micky Dolenz a Fermilab pin

03/02/17

Hey Fermilab, it’s a Monkee

Micky Dolenz, best known as a vocalist and drummer in 1960s pop band The Monkees, turns out to be one of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s original fans.

Two sided image: Man and son looking scared at float with fireworks, man and son looking happily at solar system float and

02/28/17

How to build a universe

Our universe should be a formless fog of energy. Why isn’t it?

View full archive