Scientists from the OPERA experiment at INFN's Gran Sasso National Laboratory have announced the first direct observation of a neutrino transforming from one type into another. When confirmed by a few more such events, this observation will provide further strong evidence that neutrinos have mass, a phenomenon that remains unexplained by physicists' recipe for understanding the universe, the Standard Model. 
Accelerator physicists from industry and academia were challenged this week at the International Particle Accelerators Conference in Kyoto, Japan, to find ways to make a new cancer treatment, carbon-ion therapy, more affordable.
The “Spin Path Integrals and Generations” paper got accepted at Foundations of Physics. This initiates a series of emails that make you feel like a real researcher. I’m at the stage where they’ve sent the first cut proofs and asked me to make changes. I screwed up some of the section titles (when I cut [...]
This week hundreds of accelerator physicists have gathered in Kyoto, Japan, to take part in the first International Particle Accelerator Conference, taking a step toward the practices of their detector-building colleagues. 
Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Friday, May 14, that they have found evidence for significant violation of matter-antimatter symmetry in the behavior of particles containing bottom quarks beyond what is expected in the current theory, the Standard Model of particle physics.
Can you tell a gravitational lens from a spiral galaxy? With an expansion of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project, you can try your eye at lens identification, thanks in part to the efforts of Phil Marshall at SLAC and Stanford's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophyics and Cosmology.
Twenty Fermilab volunteers gave hands-on presentations in area elementary and high schools last week to celebrate National Lab Day. “It was all really interesting,” said student Mary LeDoux. “I had heard some of the information about science done at Fermilab before but it really helps to hear it all again because these are very deep concepts.”