The world’s largest digital camera brings the night sky to life like never before. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science ...

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, ...

Near miss. ALICE is designed to study quark-gluon plasma, the hottest and densest form of matter in the universe. “Ultimately, we're trying to understand how matter behaves at the most extreme ...

Getting there. Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break. In the late 1890s, physicist Max Planck proposed a set of units to simplify the expression of physics laws.

Results from the ALPHA experiment confirm that matter and antimatter react to gravity in a similar way. Danielle Hodgkinson watched with cautious curiosity as the data poured onto screens in the ...

Scientists are championing a relatively new technique as a method to understand the structure of the early universe in three dimensions. With enough time and magnifying power, a telescope can gather ...

Building a bathroom scale for neutrinos. Back in 1980, Robertson and Bowles developed a new idea for making a direct neutrino mass measurement. But there were only a few places that had the equipment, ...

Monica Dunford. Professor, Heidelberg University Experimental physicist, ATLAS experiment. When Particle Fever was filmed, Dunford had just gotten her PhD and was working as a postdoc on the ATLAS ...

Physicist Elmer Imes’ careful work to capture the spectra of molecules made clear the worth of the theory of quantum mechanics. Shine a beam of white light through a chemical sample, then send that ...

The answer has to do with dark matter’s role in shaping the cosmos. Half a century after Vera Rubin and Kent Ford confirmed that a form of invisible matter—now called dark matter—is required to ...