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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.

The Mandela effect is an idea that people move between parallel universes. Its name arises from the fact that some people have firm memories of Nelson Mandela dying in prison when, in fact, he was released and went on to be President of South Africa. Don Lincoln explains why the parallel universe explanation is a silly one.

The hunt for the top quark at Fermilab was heating up in 1994 when scientist Mike Albrow and his colleagues on the CDF experiment felt they were close to cornering the last, undiscovered member of the quark family. Albrow tells the story leading to the discovery of the particle by CDF and DZero.

A renowned physicist and recipient of numerous science awards, including the Nobel Prize, famed former Fermilab Director Leon Lederman was everyman to the kids he met. Fermilab’s Dee Hahn recounts how Lederman entertained the children at the Fermilab daycare center.

In this 10-minute video, scientist Don Lincoln talks about the gamut of radiation levels, from safe to harmful (and cinematically enhanced).