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…
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Mysterious Physics Still Unexplained: MicroBooNE Experiment Shows No Hint of Sterile Neutrino
New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as…
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?
In 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility used for research in nuclear and high-energy physics, scientists experimenting with a…
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…
Scientists Create Advanced, More Powerful Superconducting Magnet for Next Generation Light Sources
Magnet Designers Look to the Future of Light Sources With New Prototype After more than 15 years of work, scientists at three DOE national laboratories…
Sustained, High-Fidelity Quantum Teleportation Achieved for the First Time
A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields…
Dark Matter Breakthrough Allows Probing Three of the Most Popular Theories, All at the Same Time
Observations of dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have yielded simultaneous constraints on three popular theories of dark matter. A team of scientists led by…