Particle physicists and astrophysicists employ a variety of tools to avoid erroneous results. In the 1990s, an experiment conducted in Los Alamos, about 35 miles northwest of the capital of New Mexico, appeared to find something odd. ... Continue reading →

SuperCDMS physicists are testing a way to amp up dark matter vibrations to help them search for lighter particles. A dark matter experiment scheduled to go online at the Canadian underground laboratory SNOLAB in the early 2020s will c... Continue reading →

CERN and Fermilab announce a big step forward for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in t... Continue reading →

Scientists looking for tiny particles off the coast of Italy stumble upon a much bigger research subject. About 60 miles off the southernmost tip of Sicily, in the deepest section of the Mediterranean Sea, strange objects seem to grow... Continue reading →

This instrument developed for DUNE can take 48 temperatures simultaneously and with expert precision. When crane operators at CERN lowered a custom 25-foot thermometer into one of the prototypes for the Deep Underground Neutrino Exper... Continue reading →

The South Pole Telescope recently opened its third-generation camera for a multiyear survey. Deep in Antarctica, at the southernmost point on our planet, sits a 33-foot telescope designed for a single purpose: to make images of the ol... Continue reading →

Twenty photos, two detectors, one goal. To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in the universe, particle physicists design and build high-tech detectors. On top of the incredible science they make possible, these experiments are... Continue reading →

Willie Rockward applied to college with pro football dreams, but a physics scholarship set him on a different path. “Keep your eye on the ball,” was the stock advice Willie Rockward heard from football coaches as a teenager at in the ... Continue reading →