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What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

From Forbes, Dec. 2, 2016: The latest search results released by the CMS collaboration rule out two classes of hypothetical particles, gluinos and squarks, below about 1.4 TeV in energy.

Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?

Construction has begun for the CTA, a discovery machine that will study the highest-energy objects and events across the entire sky.

THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.

Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.

Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.

From Google Cloud Platform Blog, Nov. 14, 2016: Google Cloud Platform is now a supported provider for HEPCloud, a project launched in June 2015 by Fermilab’s Scientific Computing Division to develop a virtual facility providing a common interface to local clusters, grids, high-performance computers and community and commercial clouds.

Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.

From Inside Science, Nov. 2, 2016: In this 3-minute video, DUNE co-spokesperson Mark Thomson talks about Fermilab’s search for neutrinos and how scientists capture the rare interactions of the elusive particles. Fermilab’s DUNE animation is featured.