Aria Soha was working on her very first shift as a particle accelerator operator when the machines appeared to suddenly lose their stores of particles. Rookie mistake or force majeure?

One of the most counterintuitive facts of our universe is that you can’t go faster than the speed of light. From this single observation arise all of the mind-bending behaviors of special relativity. But why is this so? In this in-depth video, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln explains the real reason that you can’t go faster than the speed of light.

One day in the 1980s, Fermilab staff working on the Tevatron heard the faint sounds of a dog barking over the telecommunication system. Elvin Harms tells the story of how they located the source of the mysterious sound.

Scientist Brendan Casey was a scientist on the DZero experiment when he experienced the most humbling day of his life at Fermilab.

The experiments based at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are undergoing a constant series of upgrades. Fermilab scientists Steve Nahn and Vivian O’Dell lead these upgrade efforts in the United States.

One of the oddest features of special relativity is the inability to go faster than the speed of light. The most common explanation is that the mass of an object increases with speed, but this particular explanation simply isn’t true. Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln explains the truth behind this.

Anxious for the safe arrival of the long-awaited vessel that would house the MicroBooNE particle detector, scientists Bonnie Fleming and Gina Rameika decide not to sit around and wait for it. Instead, they get in a car and head into neighboring towns to look for a big, school-bus-sized object being hauled by a truck.

Particle physics research is both international and collaborative, with large national laboratories working together to most efficiently advance science. Joel Butler, Fermilab distinguished scientist, is the leader of the CMS experiment at the CERN laboratory in Europe.

Take a virtual walk through LBNF! This 2-minute animation will guide you through LBNF’s large caverns, which will house the huge particle detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. To create the caverns, construction crews will excavate more than 800,000 tons of rock a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota.

Fermilab artist Angela Gonzales was not only a visionary who helped create the visually striking laboratory environment many know today, but she was also a warm, kind-hearted spirit whose friendship meant a great deal to laboratory archivist and historian Adrienne Kolb.