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• The Fermi Research Alliance (FRA) Board of Directors, which manages and operates Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, announced today that Fermilab Director Pier Oddone has decided to retire afte...

  Pier Oddone to retire as Fermilab director

• Join us as we venture into the deep quantum sea known as the Intensity Frontier, set sail across an ocean of data, take a virtual tour of the ATLAS experiment, and reveal the winners of our Higgs p...

  August issue of symmetry is here!

• Two Fermilab experiments have put new boundaries on a search for a possibly undiscovered type of neutrino, leaving prior measurements unexplained.

  Scientists place new limits on sterile neutrinos

• In the past year, scientists have bulked up their toolkits with new ways to tweak and study a state of matter 100,000 times hotter than the interior of the Sun – the quark-gluon plasma.

  Experiments reveal new techniques in studying quark-gluon plasma

• The same trend has dominated throughout accelerator history – bigger and faster is better. And yet, nuclear physicists at Michigan State are trying to slow particles down.

  Taking it slow at Michigan State’s particle decelerator

• Thanks to a new phased construction plan, the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment is back on track and ready to advance to the next stage of the U.S. Department of Energy approval process.

  Proposed neutrino experiment bounces back, ready to move on

• The LHCb experiment has already surpassed the amount it collected in all of 2011 and is poised to double that amount by the end of 2012.

  LHCb experiment collects record amount of data

• The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this release BOSS, the la...

  Experiment surveying large-scale clustering of matter in universe releases first data

• If you're still unsure what all the "Higgsteria" was about, we have a new video for you.

  Video: In the shadow of the Higgs

• The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider released papers Tuesday confirming their earlier simultaneous, independent discovery of a particle that resembles the Standard Model Hi...

  Physicists show strengthened signals of Higgs-like particle in publications

• The Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbors in the winter sky, is shocking scientists with its propensity for fireworks—gamma-ray flares set off by the most energetic particles...

  Fermi space telescope sees surprising flares in Crab Nebula

• Physicists and musicians from the LHCsound collaboration have launched a program translate data from the Large Hadron Collider into musical notes through a process called sonification. Their hope i...

  Playing by ear in the laboratory

• The time for winter break has come So we hope that you won’t mind A terrible song as a parting gift to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne.”

  A post for auld lang syne

• On Saturday, Dec. 18, scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory lowered their last strand of particle detectors into the ice beneath them. The garland of 86 basketball-sized optical sensors co...

  Holidays on ice: IceCube Neutrino Observatory complete

• Heavy-ion season is the ALICE detector’s time to shine. Of the four detectors at the LHC, only ALICE was designed specifically to study these types of collisions. This post breaks down different co...

  ALICE event display – decoded!

• This year, five laboratories in four countries invited more than 200 photographers to tour their grounds and translate the work of science into works of art. A calendar featuring the 15 winning ima...

  Global Particle Physics Photowalk calendar available for download

• Prominent string theorist Joseph Polchinski described the existence of monopoles as "one of the safest bets that one can make about physics not yet seen." But not one experiment has irrefutably dem...

  Another year of searching for magnetic monopoles

• Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the CERN Bulletin on December 13, 2010, under the headline 2010 ion run: completed! For more information, see posts about heavy-ion collisions and what s...

  LHC completes first heavy-ion run

• Editor’s note: This submission came to symmetry breaking from John Gilbey, a science and science-fiction writer featured in the April 2010 issue of symmetry magazine. Here he describes his experien...

  Diamond experience: A science-fiction author visits the Diamond Light Source

• This story first appeared in Fermilab Today on November 29, 2010. Fermilab’s iconic Cockcroft-Waltons are on their last mission. In 2012, the elephantine generators will join the cyclotron magnet i...

  The next generation of accelerator

• Because of the power outage, detailed investigations into damages have not yet been conducted. However, some damage to the buildings and facilities has already been identified based on a glance-ove...

  Report on damage at Japan’s KEK

• LHC experiments’ search for the Higgs will cover an area 27 times as large as that examined by Tevatron experiments by the end of this year, according to projections. And that’s if the LHC meets ju...

  LHC set to gain major ground in Higgs search

• Particles that consist of a bottom quark bound to a bottom anti-quark are known as bottomonia, and they have a lot to tell scientists about the strong force that binds them together. Scientists fro...

  A new bottomonium particle makes its debut

• Physicists at the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported the first observations of a new way that particles called Bs mesons decay into other particles. Studying this partic...

  Rare particle decays could indicate presence of new physics

• The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment brings Chinese and American scientists together with colleagues from Russia, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic to investigate perhaps the most important unansw...

  The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment: On Track to Completion

• One of the few people in history to walk on the moon recently became one of the few people in the world to push a big red button in the control center at the Large Hadron Collider. During a visit t...

  Buzz Aldrin visits the LHC

• Bumbling around the Web, you can't help but notice that pop culture references to particle physics pop up everywhere. But long before the current particle physics craze got going there was Poppa Ne...

  Of sports cars, the Higgs, and Poppa Neutrino

• Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider may be on the verge of discovering a new particle, according to mounting evidence from experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron. And no, it’s not the Higgs.

  Interesting effect at the Tevatron hints at new physics

• Our thoughts remain with our Japanese colleagues and friends in the aftermath of the tragic events that occurred in Japan. Collaboration between the U.S. and Japanese particle physics communities g...

  Fermilab supports Japanese colleagues and friends, sees evidence of quake

• For the first time, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have spotted the single top quark.

  Speedy single top sighting at the LHC

• Edit: Today’s launch has been postponed due to heater issues. In about four hours, the Endeavor space shuttle is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on its final mission, carrying wi...

  AMS-02 antimatter detector lifting off in 3, 2…

• As data pours in, LHC experimentalists will comb through trillions of collisions in search of exotic particles and new physics. Such a large data set is necessary for researchers to spot these rare...

  Boosting luminosity: how to get the most bang for your proton in the LHC

• The AMS particle detector will take off on 29 April 2011 at 21.47 CEST onboard the very last mission of the space Shuttle Endeavour. AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, will then be installed on ...

  The AMS detector heads for the International Space Station

• The following press release was issued today by CERN. Around midnight this night CERN’s Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams...

  LHC sets new world record

• Building and installing one of the world’s largest digital cameras to solve the mystery of dark energy requires the collaboration of scientists and industry from across the globe. The Dark Energy S...

  Dark Energy Camera ready for shipping to Chile

• Twenty years after the technology became a publicly available service, the future of the Web remains a widely debated topic. This past Wednesday, Berners-Lee and former United Kingdom Prime Ministe...

  The future of the Web: from physics to fundamental right

• According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, U.S. nuclear power plants have produced roughly 70,000 tons of radioactive waste over the last four decades. By 2025, scientists expect the amount of wast...

  Fermilab’s Project X could offer potential energy applications

• The physics world was buzzing yesterday, April 6, about the rumor of a discovery at Fermilab's Tevatron that, according to physicists, could transform all of high energy physics. Fermilab Today pub...

  Fermilab’s data peak that causes excitement

• A brand new technology that promises a range of applications from treating cancer to powering safer nuclear reactors has reached another world first in its development. This milestone was confirmed...

  Next-generation particle accelerator starts up at Daresbury Laboratory

• Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider came up empty-handed in their first searches for evidence of the theory of supersymmetry. But preliminary results from MEG, an experiment initiated by the Un...

  MEG experiment may give boost to supersymmetry

• This morning the Endeavour launched from the Florida coast on its final mission. The NASA shuttle will deliver to the International Space Station the largest physics experiment to blast into space,...

  Endeavour launch lifts search for dark matter, antimatter to new heights

• Picture this: The abandoned underground tunnels for what would have been the world’s largest particle accelerator get taken over by a billionaire/physicist duo that plans to recreate the Big Bang a...

  New movie with far-fetched “Big Bang” scenario released today

• KEK's Director General describes damages from the March 11 earthquake and sets out a timeline for recovery.

  Earthquake damage and recovery report from Japan’s KEK

• To escape from the wormhole that leads to the black hole of course. That’s the answer that Joseph Likens, a second-grader at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Brewster, New York, provided fo...

  Why did the chicken cross the road?

• Experimentalists at the Large Hadron Collider recently proved effective a simple, new method of looking for evidence of supersymmetry. The method addresses a challenge particle physicists often fac...

  Keep it simple, SUSY

• A decade ago, a muon collider was considered nearly impossible. Now, scientists at Fermilab’s MuCool Test Area are a step closer to testing some critical components for such an accelerator.

  Fermilab moves forward with testing components for a muon collider

• Edit: The shuttle launch has been postponed until May 16 due to heater issues. For the latest news follow @AMS_02. In about four hours, the Endeavour space shuttle is scheduled to launch from the K...

  AMS-02 antimatter detector lifting off in 3, 2…

• As data pours in, LHC experimentalists will comb through trillions of collisions in search of exotic particles and new physics. Such a large data set is necessary for researchers to spot these rare...

  Boosting luminosity: how to get the most bang for your proton in the LHC

• The AMS particle detector will take off on 29 April 2011 at 21.47 CEST onboard the very last mission of the space Shuttle Endeavour. AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, will then be installed on ...

  The AMS detector heads for the International Space Station

• The following press release was issued today by CERN. Around midnight this night CERN’s Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams...

  LHC sets new world record

• The OPERA neutrino experiment announced today the kind of result that keeps a physicist up at night. Scientists revealed that they have observed subatomic particles seeming to travel faster than th...

  OPERA experiment sees neutrinos seem to beat speed of light

• Neng Xu, a software engineer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on the ATLAS experiment, sat drinking coffee in a sunny corner of CERN’s cafeteria when he thought of a challenge. Could...

  Developers create virtual CERN

• When electron cooling was implemented at Fermilab in 2005, scientists thought it could help increase the peak luminosity by a factor of 1.5 to 2. Now, less than a decade later, it has become integr...

  Keeping the Tevatron’s cool: A look back at electron cooling

• Forty-one percent of the children in Sudan are malnourished and underweight, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Mohamed Eisa, a physicist at the Sudan Univers...

  Particle accelerators used to compile nutritional database in Sudan

• Turns out physicists have their own expression to convey the concept of "slow," and now, thanks to the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO), they know how slow "slow" really is: The flurry of activity ...

  EXO releases first results

• Scientists from dozens of countries and cultures mingle at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider. Last weekend, the laboratory announced plans to introduce a new element into the mix: artists.

  CERN, Ars Electronica introduce artist-in-residency program

• The power of the CAT scan to find tumors or bone fractures has advanced medical science by bringing such ailments to X-ray light, foregoing the need to cut a body open for diagnosis. As particle ac...

  Seeing beneath the surface

• All particles in nature fall into one of two classes, bosons or fermions. In nature this dichotomy stands firm. But the mathematics reveals the dividing line to be a gradated space where particles ...

  Anyons, anyone?

• Almost everyone has been there: you rush to the airport only to stand in line and watch your plane board at what feels like a snail’s pace. Yet few people take the time to come up with a better sol...

  Fermilab astrophysicist describes faster way to board airplanes…and proves it

• Over the weekend, the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider released new results bolstering the Standard Model of particle physics.

  LHCb experiment sees Standard Model physics

• Like other physicists, Lisa Randall certifies that quantum mechanics does not apply to our everyday experience. Unlike other physicists, Randall almost seems to possess the quantum capability of be...

  Lisa Randall’s Chicago appearance is one for the books

• On the homepage of a US-based company website is a picture that, at first glance, looks like an advertisement for a major household appliance. A yellow starburst graphic assures you that delivery t...

  The multiplying effects of an accelerator economy

• Today the Collide@CERN residency program begins accepting submissions for artists working in dance or performance arts to come learn and create in the laboratory.

  CERN announces competition for dance and performance arts residency

• Physicists at Fermilab will soon commission a new experiment that will slam protons into various targets to reveal the mysterious subnuclear interactions in the sea of particles within the proton. ...

  Fermilab’s SeaQuest dives into a mysterious sea of particles

• Tonight, Wednesday, Nov. 2, PBS will premiere a new four-part NOVA series entitled, “The Fabric of the Cosmos,” based on physicist Brian Greene’s book of the same name. Aiming to comprehensively ex...

  Fabric of the Cosmos: new PBS NOVA series premieres tonight

• Long before a telescope was named for him, Edwin Hubble was a competitive boxer and a World War I veteran. He fought with his father over studying law; he fought with fellow astronomer Harlow Shapl...

  On stage: Hubble’s contentious life and science

• Stanford University announced today that Persis S. Drell, director at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has decided to return to her position as a faculty member. Drell will stay on as SLAC Dir...

  Persis Drell to step down as SLAC laboratory director

• The site of the CMS experiment now sports two physics-themed outdoor frescoes done by a local graffiti artist, with one design by a retired CMS researcher.

  Graffiti Art Reflects an Experiment’s Excitement on the Walls

• The Large Hadron Collider guided beams of protons along a collision course for the last time this year on Sunday, Oct. 30.

  LHC finishes 2011 proton run

• The question of whether the OPERA experiment's faster-than-light neutrino measurement is correct is still up in the air, despite what some headlines have suggested. Experimentalists have not been a...

  Scientists still seek explanation for faster-than-light neutrino result

• Today marks the launch of a new era: Starting today symmetry magazine will be published once a month online and sent to subscribers in an easy-to-access email format.

  March 2012 issue of symmetry available

• The DZero experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron collider made public today its most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson. Knowing the mass of this force-carrying elementary particle confirms ...

  Fermilab’s DZero experiment weighs in on W boson mass

• At the Fermilab Test Beam Facility, scientists from around the world line up to test new detector technologies that will help shape the future of particle physics. Whether experimenters need a few ...

  Scientists put detectors to the test, a few particles at a time

• A webcast of the public lecture “Treating cancer in the XXI century: biology, physics and genomics,” is available online.

  Webcast: Combining science disciplines for modern cancer treatment

• Today, scientists from the CDF collaboration have unveiled the world's most precise measurement of the W boson mass, based on data gathered at the Tevatron accelerator. The precision of this measur...

  World’s best measurement of W boson mass tests Standard Model, Higgs boson limits

• Albert Einstein's law of special relativity might shrug off the challenge of faster-than-light neutrinos after all. Scientists in the OPERA collaboration announced today that they have found two po...

  Faster-than-light neutrinos explained?

• Our February issue runs the gamut from the proud 30-year-legacy of the Tevatron Collider to the latest popular physics sensation: faster-than-light neutrinos.

  February 2012 issue of symmetry available

• Readers who submitted to our "My Physical Romance” readers' challenge found love through physics and, sometimes, physics through love. But in all scenarios, they show the passion that physics can i...

  My entangled heart

• You're invited to tour an underground cavern that holds one of the largest scientific experiments in the world. Tomorrow, Feb. 15, the head of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, physi...

  Tomorrow: Live underground tour of the CMS detector on Google+

• CERN scientists will begin running the Large Hadron Collider at a higher energy than ever before when this winter’s technical stop comes to a close in mid-March, the laboratory announced in a press...

  CERN plans for even more intense year of LHC physics

• The Tevatron may be shut down for good, but – as evidenced by the catalogue of results presented at this week’s Rencontres de Moriond conference – the collider’s experiments still have plenty to sa...

  Scientists continue to see puzzling behavior in top quarks, reaffirm strength of Tevatron experiments

• On March 7, Alan Alda, the actor best known for playing medic Hawkeye Pierce on yesteryear’s TV series M*A*S*H, visited the home of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

  A sM*A*S*Hing CERN visit

• An international collaboration of physicists working on a neutrino experiment in southern China announced today they have made a difficult measurement scientists have been chasing for more than a d...

  Daya Bay experiment makes key measurement, paves way for future discoveries

• Tevatron physicists told attendees of the Rencontres de Moriond conference this morning that they had found excesses in their data suggestive of a Higgs with a mass between 115-135 gigaelectronvolt...

  Tevatron experiments see possible signs of the Higgs boson in favored region

• The LHCb collaboration set the Standard Model on its surest footing yet in results announced at the Rencontres de Moriond conference today.

  LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics

• Scientists at the IceCube experiment recently announced the results of their inquiry into whether two of the cosmos' greatest mysteries are related.

  South Pole scientists seek neutrino hotspots to unravel cosmic mystery

• Today marks the launch of a new era: Starting today symmetry magazine will be published once a month online and sent to subscribers in an easy-to-access email format.

  March 2012 issue of symmetry available

• The DZero experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron collider made public today its most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson. Knowing the mass of this force-carrying elementary particle confirms ...

  Fermilab’s DZero experiment weighs in on W boson mass

• At the Fermilab Test Beam Facility, scientists from around the world line up to test new detector technologies that will help shape the future of particle physics. Whether experimenters need a few ...

  Scientists put detectors to the test, a few particles at a time

• A webcast of the public lecture “Treating cancer in the XXI century: biology, physics and genomics,” is available online.

  Webcast: Combining science disciplines for modern cancer treatment

• An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercom...

  Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter

• The Majorana Demonstrator collaboration began moving their experiment into the Davis Campus on the 4850 Level this week.

  Moving day for experiment examining whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles

• If attendees at the welcome reception for CERN’s first artist-in-residence learned one thing last night, it was that Julius von Bismarck is not afraid to disrupt others with his art.

  Digital artist creates new kind of experiment at CERN

• The decommissioning of the Tevatron represented the end of an era, but it also is ushering in the next generation of physics by providing valuable equipment to other experiments.

  More physics for your funding

• Scientists on the ICARUS experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced today that they had found no evidence of superluminal neutrinos in a cross-check of earlier analysis from the OPERA experiment, a...

  New neutrino measurement finds particles obeying speed limit

• Retired CERN physicist Cristoforo Benvenuti learned a thing or two about building a better solar panel through his work on particle accelerators. The Geneva International Airport recently ordered 300.

  CERN spin-off: More efficient solar panels

• Scientists recently proved possible a way to converse when radio waves won’t do. For the first time, physicists have successfully transmitted a message using neutrinos.

  Scientists send encoded message through rock via neutrino beam

• The Tevatron may be shut down for good, but – as evidenced by the catalogue of results presented at this week’s Rencontres de Moriond conference – the collider’s experiments still have plenty to sa...

  Scientists continue to see puzzling behavior in top quarks, reaffirm strength of Tevatron experiments

• On March 7, Alan Alda, the actor best known for playing medic Hawkeye Pierce on yesteryear’s TV series M*A*S*H, visited the home of the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

  A sM*A*S*Hing CERN visit

• An international collaboration of physicists working on a neutrino experiment in southern China announced today they have made a difficult measurement scientists have been chasing for more than a d...

  Daya Bay experiment makes key measurement, paves way for future discoveries

• The team working on the Large Area Telescope has discovered that most gamma rays detected by LAT cannot be attributed to individual point sources.

  Fermi uses gamma rays to unearth clues about “empty” space

• Ever wonder what physics sounds like? Composer and network engineer Domenico Vicinanza recently created a musical score that mimics the tracks of subatomic particles.

  Listening for the sound of science

• We’ve done it again. The May issue of symmetry is now available online.

  May 2012 issue of symmetry available

• After months of installation and commissioning efforts, FACET, the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday.

  FACET test facility hosts first users

• Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.

  CMS collaboration discovers its first new particle

• A project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.

  Citizen scientists find new purpose in pulsar search

• Perched high atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will take the largest, fastest, most detailed pictures of the Southern Hemisphere’s night sky. With these im...

  World’s largest digital camera one step closer to reality

• The world’s two most mature proposals for a collider complementary to the Large Hadron Collider are joining collaborative forces. The two proposed electron-positron collider projects, the Compact L...

  Two proposed linear collider programs to be joined under new governance

• The DZero experiment at Fermilab’s Tevatron collider has confirmed the discovery of a new particle from an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In December, scientists on the ATLAS experimen...

  Tevatron experiment confirms LHC discovery of Chi-b (P3) particle

• At just after midnight in Geneva, operators brought stable beams of protons into collisions at the record-breaking energy of 8 TeV — 4 TeV per beam — for the first time. This marked the beginning o...

  LHC physics data taking gets underway at new record collision energy of 8 TeV

• A project that lets citizen volunteers contribute to scientists' search for gravitational waves, theoretical ripples in the fabric of space-time, has expanded its efforts -- with impressive results.

  Citizen scientists find new purpose in pulsar search

• The elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and sti...

  Scientists celebrate completion of underground physics laboratory

• Tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Brea...

  Thursday: Chat with physicists on Twitter

• Researchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water.

  Researchers developing underwater neutrino experiment make oceanographic discovery

• Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers announced in a press release today that they have completed a machine tailor-made to examine an approach to fusion power.

  New accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion

• With their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide Project X, the accelerator project that will power Fermilab's future experiments, into phases in order to lessen the initial c...

  Fermilab scientists revise plans for construction of new accelerator project

• On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.

  NOvA neutrino detector’s future home in Minnesota complete

• We’ve done it again. The May issue of symmetry is now available online.

  May 2012 issue of symmetry available

• After months of installation and commissioning efforts, FACET, the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday.

  FACET test facility hosts first users

• Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.

  CMS collaboration discovers its first new particle

• Wednesday, May 30, marked the official opening of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 4,850 feet down in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota.

  Underground science lab dedicated deep in the Black Hills

• This month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technol...

  DOE awards $2.5 million to Fermilab’s Brendan Casey

• The next generation of the iconic SPIRES particle-physics database, called INSPIRE, is now online and operational, ready to serve scientists around the globe.

  Physicists, start your searches: INSPIRE database now online

• The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.

  Driving the next magnet revolution

• The elevator that sinks into the Vale Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, is a gateway to two different worlds. One is Canada’s largest nickel mine, opened at the turn of the last century and sti...

  Scientists celebrate completion of underground physics laboratory

• Tomorrow at 1 p.m. EST, accelerator physicists from four national laboratories will take to Twitter to discuss discovery science with the tweeting public. To take part in the event, dubbed Lab Brea...

  Thursday: Chat with physicists on Twitter

• Researchers deciding where to place the planned Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory, or NEMO, were measuring water currents and temperatures when they stumbled upon unexpected patterns in the water.

  Researchers developing underwater neutrino experiment make oceanographic discovery

• Berkeley Lab scientists and engineers announced in a press release today that they have completed a machine tailor-made to examine an approach to fusion power.

  New accelerator to study steps on the path to fusion

• With their eyes on the tight federal budget, scientists plan to divide Project X, the accelerator project that will power Fermilab's future experiments, into phases in order to lessen the initial c...

  Fermilab scientists revise plans for construction of new accelerator project

• On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.

  NOvA neutrino detector’s future home in Minnesota complete

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