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 still in operation. The other is SNOLAB, a large underground particle physics laboratory, the grand opening of which will take place today.
Physics Lives is a four part video series intended to showcase the rich variety of life as a university research physicist. The films demonstrate fascinating aspects of physics, while also making often complex themes accessible to a wider audience. Air Apparent: Mapping air pollutants Dr. Mark Richards investigates a problem that is linked to over [...]
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 Breakthrough Office Hours, use the hashtag #labchat.
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.
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.
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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 costs.
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On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.
We’ve done it again. The May issue of symmetry is now available online.
I should have advertised this ahead of time, but even though I’m late to it, I wanted to mention that the Philadelphia Science Festival was going on all last week. It’s been great to see science taking its rightful place among the other cultural attractions of Philadelphia, and in particular, it was nice that astronomy [...]
After months of installation and commissioning efforts, FACET, the Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests, welcomed its first two groups of experimenters on Friday.
Members of the CMS collaboration announced the experiment’s first discovery of a new particle today.
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.
A flowchart I put together for The Particle at the End of the Universe. Feel free to spread around, with appropriate attribution. Sorry for the tiny writing, there are a lot of particles! Click to embiggen and get a legible version.
A new experiment clocked in neutrinos at the speed of light, and not faster, and scientists say that if the particle were faster, there would be no credible model to explain the phenomenon.