BYLINE: Maxwell Bernstein Newswise — A lot can happen in the blink of an eye. In a laboratory setting, it takes an average person about one-fifth of a second to…
Category: Particle Physics
Honeycomb Lattice Sweetens Quantum Materials Development
BYLINE: Dawn Levy Newswise — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum materials, which are central to discovery science…
Three Decades of Detecting, Distributing and Decoding the Behavior of Nature’s Smallest Components
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.…
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…
Decades-Old Mystery in Particle Physics Solved
Newswise — Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE experiment at CERN’s particle accelerator, led by researchers from the Technical…
A Quarter-Century of Surprises: Exploring the Quark-Gluon Plasma
BYLINE: by Shannon Brescher Shea. Social media manager and senior writer/editor in the Office of Science’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs Newswise — Two huge metal rings, each more…
Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)
BYLINE: Megan Watzke Newswise — Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the Universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of…
