Astronomers have known for years that our Milky Way and its closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, (a.k.a M31) are being pulled together in a gravitational dance, but no one was sure whether the galaxies would collide head-on or glide past one another. Precise measurements from the Hubble Space Telescope have now confirmed that the two [...]
Wednesday, May 30, marked the official opening of the Davis Campus of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 4,850 feet down in the former Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota. 
This month, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science named Fermilab's Brendan Casey a recipient of the 2012 DOE Early Career Research Award. It will support his research on the detector technology for the Muon g-2 experiment with a total of $2.5 million over five years.
Christer Fuglesang, a former physicist who worked at CERN and now an European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut brought back to CERN a neutralino he had taken along on his mission to the Internal Space Station in 2009. Yesterday, Christer Fuglesang (right) former physicist from CERN and now astronaut with the European Space Agency, brought back [...]
The next generation of the iconic SPIRES particle-physics database, called INSPIRE, is now online and operational, ready to serve scientists around the globe. 
The Department of Energy recently presented an Early Career Award to Tengming Shen, an engineer working to spur the next magnet revolution.
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.
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.
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.
On April 27, more than 250 people gathered to inaugurate the NOvA facility near the Ash River in northern Minnesota.
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 [...]
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.