Symmetry

Approaching retirement, Jean Deken describes what it’s like to preserve decades of collective scientific memory at a national lab.

The Japan-based experiment is one step closer to answering mystifying questions about antimatter.

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics — and vice versa.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.

It doesn’t seem like collisions of particles with no mass should be able to produce the “mass-giving” boson, the Higgs. But every other second at the LHC, they do.

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After a week of appreciation for each of the four particle contenders, the photon emerged as the winner in the Subatomic Smackdown.

Symmetry goes inside the CERN Control Center on restart day.

The LHC is one of the coldest places on the planet.

These two-minute animations break down the accelerator systems at Fermilab and CERN.