During the last four years, LHC scientists have filled in gaps in our knowledge and tested the boundaries of the Standard Model. Today operators guided this year's last beam of particles out of circulation at the Large Hadron Collider... Continue reading →

During the short heavy-ion run at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, every moment counts. When physicist Marta Verweij arrived at CERN in early November, one of the first things she did was pull an all-nighter in the control center fo... Continue reading →

1970s video footage recorded by musician Micky Dolenz when he visited the then-nascent Fermilab is now available on YouTube. You probably know the band the Monkees (of “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I’m a Believer,” and “Hey, hey, we’r... Continue reading →

Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe. On March 29, 1979, high in the Quinlan Mountains in the Tohono O’odham Nation in southwestern Ari... Continue reading →

Physicist Kira Burt dropped out of school at 16. Now she teaches students that anyone can be a scientist. At the age of 16, Kira Burt dropped out of high school in Spokane, Washington, and started working odd jobs in food service and ... Continue reading →

Quantum entanglement, doubted by Einstein, has passed increasingly stringent tests. Over 12 billion years ago, speeding particles of light left an extremely luminous celestial object called a quasar and began a long journey toward a p... Continue reading →

Add some science to your Halloween! The unofficial song of Halloween, Bobby Pickett’s Monster Mash, starts with a narrator working in a lab—but that’s where the science ends. So a few Fermilab singers got together and recorded a new, ... Continue reading →

We already know neutrinos break the mold of the Standard Model. The question is: By how much? Tested and verified with ever increasing precision, the Standard Model of particle physics is a remarkably elegant way of understanding the ... Continue reading →