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Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.

What are all of the symbols in Fermilab’s unofficial seal?

The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.

From Cosmos Magazine, May 19, 2016: The most elusive particles in the universe – neutrinos – might not stay hidden for much longer. Testing for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, began earlier this year.

A reader asks, “If atoms are mostly empty space, then why does anything feel solid?” James Beacham, a researcher with the ATLAS Experiment Group at Ohio State University, explains in this two-minute video.

From Voice of America, May 11, 2016: As the Large Hadron Collider returns to full operation, scientists at Fermilab, America’s premier particle physics lab, are excited about a tantalizing discovery made at CERN.

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.

From Cold Facts, April 20, 2016: Fermilab’s work on LCLS-II is highlighted in a round-up of cryogenic facilities at national laboratories.

From Nature, April 29, 2016: A request to christen the newborn animal kicks off a flurry of physics puns.