When I arrived at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in the prairie suburbs west of Chicago to begin my ...

The proposed semiconductor-based design uses magnetic fields to catch dark matter particles.

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

A proposed funding program for small- and medium-scale projects reveals insights into the science, logistical challenges, and future of particle physics research. Particle physicists have a reputation ...

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Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions. By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller Friday, Dec. 8: This story was updated to include ...

The ability to study extreme processes such as TGFs originating in lightning allows us to better understand the high-energy ...

No one has ever probed a particle more stringently than this. In a new experiment, scientists measured a magnetic property of the electron more carefully than ever before, making the most precise ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

“I think art is what makes us human,” says Dr. Clara Nellist, a particle physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. “Pure scientific curiosity … I compare it to art.” “One of ...