Read article 'FAIR forges its future'
Supernova explosions, neutron-star mergers and rare radioactive ions might not seem to have much connection to terrestrial matters. Yet, while the lightest elements were synthesised immediately after ...
Read article 'The founding of Fermilab'
Fifty years ago, physicists in the US established a new laboratory and with it a new approach to carrying out frontier research.
Read article 'Search for sterile neutrinos triples up'
Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino programme targets sterile neutrinos.
Read article 'A selection of Fermilab’s greatest hits'
Timeline showing Fermilab’s major experimental achievements
Read article 'Revisiting the b revolution'
A look back at the Fermilab experiment that unearthed the b quark.
Read article 'Baksan scales new neutrino heights'
On 29 June 1967, the Soviet government issued a document that gave the go-ahead to build a brand new underground facility for neutrino physics in the Baksan valley in the mountainous region of the Nor...
Read article 'Euclid to pinpoint nature of dark energy'
Due for launch in 2020, ESA’s Euclid probe will track galaxies and large areas of sky to find the cause of the cosmic acceleration.
Read article 'How dark matter became a particle'
Astronomers have long contemplated the possibility that there may be forms of matter in the universe that are imperceptible, either because they are too far away, too dim or intrinsically invisible. L...
Read article 'Physics at its limits'
A 100 km-circumference collider would address many of the outstanding questions in modern particle physics.
Read article 'Doubting darkness'
An interview with Erik Verlinde, who argues that dark matter is an illusion caused by an incomplete understanding of gravity.
