BYLINE: Savannah Mitchem and Lea Radick Newswise — The Argonne team continues to make important contributions to the ATLAS experiment, investigating the universe’s smallest building blocks and the rules behind their interactions.…
Category: Physics
Leading the Field in Magnets
BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two years later, he founded what would become the…
Containing Thousands of Tons of Liquid Argon for DUNE Requires Multi-Layered Approach
BYLINE: Anne Heavey Newswise — How do you contain over 15,000 tons of a liquid that must be kept at minus 303 degrees Fahrenheit for a science experiment? A science…
Dark Matter May Have Begun Much Hotter Than Scientists Thought
Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/13/2026) — Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universit´e Paris-Saclay have challenged a decades-old dark matter theory. Their new research shows…
The NSF Very Large Array Helps Reveal Record-Breaking Stream of Super-Heated Gas from Nearby Galaxy
Newswise — Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA), together with the NASA James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories, have identified an enormous, galaxy-scale…
Queen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse tongue hair
The density of fine hairs on bumblebees’ tongues determines how much nectar they can collect — and workers put queen bees to shame.
Hunting a Basic Building Block of the Universe
Newswise — Scientists have made a major step toward using quasiparticles — particles displaying collective behavior — to hunt for axions. Their findings open new paths for harnessing quasiparticles to…
Superconducting Circuits: How LLNL Is Building on Nobel Prize-Winning Quantum Technology
Newswise — This fall, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization…
Fermilab’s Accomplishments Highlight Discovery and Innovation in 2025
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is not only one of the world’s premier particle physics and accelerator research facilities but also…
UAH Researchers Lead Study Suggesting Dark Matter Can Be Detected in Unidentified X-Ray Emission Lines in Spectra of Galaxy Clusters
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Scientists search for “decaying” dark matter (DDM) because it offers unique signatures like specific X-ray or gamma-ray lines or neutrino signals not seen in normal…
