You have heard about Fermilab, accelerators, quarks and the Big Bang. But how do all those things fit together? If you only knew a scientist whom you could ask... More than a year ago, physicist Peter ...

Particle accelerators are often framed as exotic machines built only to chase obscure particles, but they are really precision tools that use electric fields and magnets to steer tiny beams of matter ...

American scientists have found strong hints that the rumored Higgs boson particle exists, and has been created inside an atom smasher in Illinois. The news comes just days before big news on the ...

The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos. In a major step for the ...

Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...