The $100 muon detector
A doctoral student and his adviser designed a tabletop particle detector they hope to make accessible to budding young engineering physicists.
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The physics photographer
Fermilab’s house photographer of almost 30 years, Reidar Hahn, shares four of his most iconic shots.
The contents of the universe
How do scientists know what percentages of the universe are made up of dark matter and dark energy? Cosmologist Risa Wechsler of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology explains. Watch the 3-minute video.
Sterile neutrinos in trouble
The IceCube experiment reports ruling out to a high degree of certainty the existence of a theoretical low-mass sterile neutrino.
LHC bump fades with more data
Possible signs of new particle seem to have washed out in an influx of new data.
Higgs boson resurfaces in LHC data
The Higgs appeared in the second run of the LHC about twice as fast as it did in the first.
Q&A: The future of CERN
CERN’s Director General is enthusiastic about the progress and prospects of the LHC research program, but it’s not the only thing on her plate.
The deconstructed Standard Model equation
The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.
The most important website in particle physics
The first website to be hosted in the U.S. has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.
A primer on particle accelerators
What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?