U.S. Dept of Energy Breakthrough: Detecting Dark Matter With Quantum Computers
Dark matter makes up about 27% of the matter and energy budget in the universe, but scientists do not know much about it. They do…
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory News
The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is located in Batavia, Illinois, and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The lab specializes in particle physics and is home to a 215-meter-long particle accelerator. New developments in quantum computing are also being researched. To learn more about the extensive research initiatives being conducted in the lab, visit SciTechDaily.com.
The Top 15 Most Stunning Photos Taken by the Dark Energy Camera
The Dark Energy Camera has taken countless photos. Here are 15 of the most spectacular. The Dark Energy Camera has taken more than a million…
Particle Physics Shock: Most Precise Ever Measurement of W Boson Mass Differs From Standard Model Prediction
Most precise ever measurement of W boson mass shows tension with the Standard Model. After 10 years of careful analysis and scrutiny, scientists of the…
Building an Innovative Cross-Border Dark Matter Experiment Deep Underground – During a Pandemic
In the search for dark matter particles, a tabletop experiment in the heart of a Canadian mine might do the trick. The SENSEI collaboration uses…
Mysterious Physics Still Unexplained: MicroBooNE Experiment Shows No Hint of Sterile Neutrino
The theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino has been dealt a blow by new results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of…
Muon g-2 Experiment Results – Profound Implications for the History of the Universe
Experiment opens up field for new physics, say Fermilab, UChicago scientists. The news that muons have a little extra wiggle in their step sent word…
Science Made Simple: What Are Sterile Neutrinos?
Sterile neutrinos are a special kind of neutrino that has been proposed to explain some unexpected experimental results, but they have not been definitively discovered….
Argonaut Ultracold Robotics Project: Voyaging Into a Sea of Liquid Argon
The Argonauts of Greek mythology braved sharp rocks, rough seas, magic, and monsters to find the fabled Golden Fleece. A new robotics project at the…
ICARUS Gets Ready to Fly – Officially Starts Its Hunt for Elusive Sterile Neutrinos This Fall
The ICARUS detector, part of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, will officially start its hunt for elusive sterile neutrinos this fall. The international collaboration led by…
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Welcomes First Baby Bison of the Year
Fermilab is known for cutting-edge experiments, particle physics research—and an adorable herd of bison. On April 26, baby bison season officially began at the lab….
Are We on the Brink of a New Age of Scientific Discovery?
Scientists experimenting with a subatomic particle called a muon encountered something unexpected in 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility…
Muon g-2 Particle Accelerator Experiment Results Are Not Explained by Our Current Theories of Physics
The first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed that fundamental particles called muons…
Physicists Build a Quantum Bit That Can Search for Dark Matter
Qubits offer a fast, highly reliable way to solve one of the great mysteries in physics. Some kind of invisible material is out there affecting…
Testing Our Fundamental Understanding of the Universe: Muon G-2 Experiment Hints at Mysterious New Physics
Scientists are testing our fundamental understanding of the universe, and there’s much more to discover. What do touch screens, radiation therapy and shrink wrap have…
Evidence of Exciting New Physics From U.S. Department of Energy’s Muon G-2 Experiment – “Today Is an Extraordinary Day”
The long-awaited first results from the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory show fundamental particles called muons behaving…
The Mystery of the Muon’s Magnetism
A super-precise experiment at Fermilab is carefully analyzing every detail of the muon’s magnetic moment. Modern physics is full of the sort of twisty, puzzle-within-a-puzzle…
New Metamaterial Structures for Studying the Oldest Light in the Universe
The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the…
Physicists Surprise Discovery: Intracluster Light May Provide a New Way to Measure Dark Matter
A combination of observational data and sophisticated computer simulations have yielded advances in a field of astrophysics that has languished for half a century. The…
