Particle PhysicsDecember 26, 2023
A Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos Could Unlock Deep Cosmic Secrets
The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program will try to determine once and for all whether sterile neutrinos are real
Stories by Don Lincoln
Don Lincoln is a senior physicist at Fermilab who conducts research using data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He is author of several science books for the public, including his most recent one, Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything (Oxford University Press, 2023).
OpinionJune 6, 2018
New Higgs Boson Observations Reveal Clues on the Nature of Mass
For the first time the scientists have observed the famous Higgs boson, responsible for imparting mass, interacting with the heaviest particle in the universe
The SciencesDecember 18, 2015
Is a Real Lightsaber Possible? Science Offers New Hope
A Fermi Lab senior scientist runs through a real-life Jedi's (limited) options
Space & PhysicsDecember 1, 2015
New Ideas in the Search for Dark Matter
The invisible dark matter particles that dominate the universe may come in strange and varied forms
Space & PhysicsNovember 24, 2015
Einstein's Unfinished Dream: Marrying Relativity to the Quantum World
On the centennial of the theory of general relativity, senior Fermilab scientist Don Lincoln reflects on Einstein's quest to understand the quantum world
The SciencesNovember 25, 2014
U.S. Particle Physics Program Aims for the Future
In the last few years, stories have abounded in the press of the successes of the Large Hadron Collider, most notably the discovery of the Higgs boson.
October 1, 2014
Particle Physics Informs the Ultimate Questions
Editor's Note: Author and Fermilab Senior Scientist Don Lincoln is set to teach "Mysteries of the Universe" from October 13 - 24 for Scientific American's Professional Learning Program.
The SciencesAugust 1, 2013
Who Said U.S. Particle Physics Is Dead?
The death of particle physics in the U.S. has been greatly exaggerated
November 1, 2012
The Inner Life of Quarks
What if the smallest bits of matter actually harbor an undiscovered world of particles?