
Quirky Quark Combo Creates Exotic New Particle
A new particle, possibly a tetraquark, has been detected at physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland

Quirky Quark Combo Creates Exotic New Particle
A new particle, possibly a tetraquark, has been detected at physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland

Particle Fever, I’ve Got It!
By now, I hope you’ve heard about Particle Fever. It premiered a few weeks ago – if I remember correctly, the same week as Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new Cosmos premiered.


Particle Fever: A Movie About the LHC Comes to US Theaters March 5
“Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.” -Particle Fever: With One Switch, Everything Changes.

Particles and the People Who Love Them: Documentary Shows Human Side of Large Hadron Collider
Full disclosure: I cried at a movie about particle physics. And I wasn’t alone. As the film showed footage of the July 4, 2012 announcement of the Higgs boson discovery, I noticed the woman next to me wiping her eyes just as I was doing the same.

When the Large Hadron Collider Is Too Small
The Large Hadron Collider has only just begun its explorations, so it might seem a little premature to begin thinking about what new particle projects might come next.

Physics Hasn’t Looked This Hot Since The Big Bang
The ATLAS detector at CERN is overwhelming to mere mortals like myself. It’s one of four detectors along the Large Hadron Collider designed to detect the most fundamental particles in our universe.

Cyclotrons Come Full Circle
U.S. Physicists hope to rejuvenate a classic technology to support neutrino experiments

Fermilab: High Energy Physics on the Prairie [Slide Show]
The Tevatron shut in 2011, but particles still fly for science outside Chicago

Where Are the Anti-People? [Excerpt]
Physicist Dave Goldberg breaks down the mysteries of the cosmos in his new book The Universe in the Rearview Mirror. In an excerpt, Goldberg explores the matter-antimatter divide

Particle Containing 4 Quarks Is Confirmed for First Time
The quark quartet opens a fresh vista on matter

Giant, Heavy and Hollow: Physicists Create Extreme Atoms
Atoms are being stretched, stripped and contorted to new and bizarre limits

New Physics Complications Lend Support to Multiverse Hypothesis
Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: the universe might not make sense