During the last four years, LHC scientists have filled in gaps in our knowledge and tested the boundaries of the Standard Model. Since the start of Run II in March 2015, they’ve recorded an incredible amount of data —five times more than the LHC produced in Run I. The accelerator produced approximately 16 million billion proton-proton collisions — about one collision for every ant currently living on Earth.
1970s video footage recorded by musician Micky Dolenz when he visited the then-nascent Fermilab is now available on YouTube.
Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.
Physicist Kira Burt dropped out of school at 16. Now she teaches students that anyone can be a scientist.
Quantum entanglement, doubted by Einstein, has passed increasingly stringent tests.
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We already know neutrinos break the mold of the Standard Model. The question is: By how much?
These international projects, selected during the process to plan the future of U.S. particle physics, are all set to come online within the next 10 years.
Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe.
To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.