Symmetry features

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.

Successful physics collaborations rely on cooperation between people from many different disciplines.

Barish explains how LIGO became the high-achieving experiment it is today.

Fantastical designs elevate physics in works by Fermilab’s first artist.

Around the world, scientists and nonscientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.

For Dark Matter Day, scientist and Star Wars fan Dan McKinsey talks dark matter and the Force.

Cross sections tell physicists how likely particles are to interact in a given way.

For the first time, experiments have seen both light and gravitational waves released by a single celestial crash.

Scientists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for their roles in creating the LIGO experiment.

The national laboratory opened usually inaccessible areas of its campus to thousands of visitors to celebrate 50 years of discovery.