A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication
Photo of Ice Cube snow
04/30/14

Possible expansion for South Pole detector

Physicists hope to seek out the source of cosmic neutrinos by expanding the IceCube neutrino detector to 10 times its current size.

Photo of LHCb
04/14/14

CERN’s LHCb experiment sees exotic particle

An analysis using LHC data verifies the existence of an exotic four-quark hadron.

Photo of Tufte exhibit
04/11/14

Tufte’s Feynman sculptures come to Fermilab

Edward Tufte, celebrated statistician and master of informational graphics, transforms physics notations into works of art.

Photo of STAR detector
04/10/14

From quark soup to ordinary matter

Scientists have gained new insight into how matter can change from a hot soup of particles to the matter we know today.

Illustration of Sloan Digital Sky Survey
04/07/14

Expanding universe measured with precision

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has made the most precise measurement of the expansion rate of the universe over a period of time, an important step toward understanding dark energy.

Photo of Preinjector1
04/04/14

LHC begins long road to restart

Physicists have begun to reawaken CERN’s accelerator complex, with a goal of having beam ready for the next run of the LHC in early 2015.

Photo of galactic center
04/03/14

Possible hints of dark matter in Fermi data

Scientists say collisions between dark matter particles might be the cause of a curious excess of gamma-ray light coming from the center of our galaxy.

Photo of four detectors
03/19/14

LHC and Tevatron share first joint result

An international team of scientists from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has produced the world’s best value for the mass of the top quark.

Photo of BICEP2
03/17/14

Physicists find evidence of cosmic inflation

The BICEP2 experiment has detected signs of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background radiation, with big implications for the theory of cosmic inflation.

Photo of CPI klystron
03/12/14

Klystrons for industry

SLAC partners with industry to produce klystrons, the heart of accelerators in labs and medical facilities around the world.

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