BYLINE: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Newswise — Humans intuitively understand gravity. The closer we get to massive body, the more we feel the gravitational pull. The further away we…
Category: Particle Physics
Muon G-2 Experiment Receives Prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
BYLINE: Jen Roney Newswise — Argonne scientists contributed to the Muon g-2 experiment hosted at Fermilab, recognized with the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for delivering the world’s most…
Dark Matter in the Center of the Milky Way Not Ruled Out
Newswise — An international research collaboration between the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States has used machine learning to re-examine one of the most…
Fermilab Storage Infrastructure Enables AI-Driven Scientific and Research Discovery for DOE’s Genesis Mission
BYLINE: Maxwell Bernstein Newswise — When the U.S. Department of Energy launched the Genesis Mission to supercharge artificial intelligence-driven scientific discovery and innovation, it needed more than supercomputers. It required secure, best-in-class…
The Apex of RHIC Physics: 2026 Users’ Meeting Recap
BYLINE: By Karen McNulty Walsh and Kelly Lazzaro Newswise — Scientists conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS), and the supporting accelerator complex at…
Researchers Use Argonne Supercomputer to Illuminate the Subatomic Particle That Helps Hold Matter Together
BYLINE: Nils Heinonen Newswise — High-resolution 3D images of the pion offer new insight into how this key particle forms the atomic nuclei of all visible matter. A team of researchers has…
UAH Researchers Find New Method to “Weigh” Neighboring Galaxies Using Pulsars as Ultra-Precise Gravitational Probes
BYLINE: Russ Nelson Newswise — Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new method for measuring…
DUNE Will Use Liquid-Argon Time Projection Chamber Technology Both Near and Far
BYLINE: Zachary Burton and Anne Heavey Newswise — Physicists discovered decades ago that odd little particles called neutrinos, of which there are three known “flavors,” morph between these flavors as…
Fermilab Completes Its Part in Upgrading World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser
BYLINE: Madeleine O’Keefe Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has completed building and delivering the final component it is providing to the high-energy upgrade of…
DUNE Collaborators Advance Breakthrough Power-Over-Fiber Technology
BYLINE: Zachary Burton Newswise — Inside an unassuming building on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, a small research team is tackling…
