Summer school gives African students glimpse into lives in physics

This month, about 30 instructors and 50 students traveled from around Africa and the rest of the world to gather in Ghana for three and a half weeks of training in physics and computing.

Pierre Auger Observatory tests particle knowledge beyond reach of LHC

Pierre Auger Observatory tests particle knowledge beyond reach of LHC

Scientists at the Pierre Auger Observatory recently tested the theory that governs the behavior of protons at energies inaccessible at the Large Hadron Collider.

How to grow a universe – just add a supercomputer

Fermilab retires iconic Cockcroft-Walton generators

Today Fermilab's iconic Cockroft-Walton generators will send out their last beam.

Astrophysicists discover natural particle collider in space

This summer, particle astrophysicists studied a supernova remnant located about 3000 light years away and discovered what is best described as a particle collider in space.

Scientists place new limits on sterile neutrinos

Experiments reveal new techniques in studying quark-gluon plasma

Taking it slow at Michigan State’s particle decelerator

Proposed neutrino experiment bounces back, ready to move on

Thanks to a new phased construction plan, the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment is back on track and ready to advance to the next stage of the U.S. Department of Energy approval process.

Experiment surveying large-scale clustering of matter in universe releases first data

LHCb experiment collects record amount of data

The LHCb experiment at CERN has collect a record amount of data this year, already surpassing the amount it collected in all of 2011.

Video: In the shadow of the Higgs

Symmetry readers find the Higgs boson

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider weren’t the only ones to discover a Higgs-like particle. When we asked symmetry breaking readers to send us their own evidence of a Higgs boson, they sent a massive outpouring of creative candidates.

Pier Oddone to retire as Fermilab director

The Fermi Research Alliance (FRA) Board of Directors, which manages and operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, announced that Fermilab Director Pier Oddone has decided to retire after eight years at the helm of America’s leading particle physics laboratory.