Fermilab

A New Tabletop Experiment to Search for Dark Matter

What is Dark Matter? We don't know. At this stage of the game, scientists are busy trying to detect it…

8 months ago

New Muon g-2 Result Improves the Measurement by a Factor of 2

The results from the first three years of Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab provide further evidence for the existence of…

1 year ago

Weird! Measurement of W Boson Doesn’t Match Standard Model of Physics

A decade ago, physicists wondered whether the discovery of the Higgs boson at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider would point to…

3 years ago

Fermilab’s Muon g-2 Experiment Finally Gives Particle Physicists a Hint of What Lies Beyond the Standard Model

The results of the first run of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab indicate that there could be physics beyond…

4 years ago

NOvA Experiment Nabs Its First Neutrinos

Neutrinos are some of the most abundant, curious, and elusive critters in particle physics. Incredibly lightweight -- nigh massless, according…

11 years ago

Tevatron Targets Higgs Mass

Today, researchers from Fermilab announced they have zeroed in further on the mass of the Higgs boson, the controversially-called "God…

12 years ago

Galactic Gong – Milky Way Struck and Still Ringing After 100 Million Years

When galaxies collide, stars are thrown from orbits, spiral arms are stretched and twisted, and now scientists say galaxies ring…

12 years ago

Hailing Frequencies Open? Communication Via Neutrinos Tested Successfully

[/caption] In science fiction – like in Star Trek, for example -- interstellar communication was never a problem; all you…

13 years ago

Particle Physicists See Something Little That Could be Really Big

[/caption] Physicists from Fermilab have seen a “bump” in their data that could indicate a brand new particle unlike any…

14 years ago