Berkeley Lab Scientists Recipients of 2015 Breakthrough Prizes
Saul Perlmutter, along with other members of the Supernova Cosmology Project he leads, shared the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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Transatlantic data-transfer gets a boost
New links will improve the flow of data from the Large Hadron Collider to US institutions.
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500-mile neutrino experiment up and running
Construction is complete for NOvA, the longest-distance neutrino experiment in the world.
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Accelerating the Fight Against Cancer
As charged-particle therapies grow in popularity, physicists are working with other experts to make them smaller, cheaper and more effective—and more available to cancer patients in the United States.
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Forecasting the future
Physicists and other scientists use the GEANT4 toolkit to identify problems before they occur.
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Particle Physics to Aid Nuclear Cleanup
Cosmic rays can help scientists do something no one else can: safely image the interior of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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NOvA Detector Takes Shape
Members of the NOvA neutrino experiment celebrated their progress with a visit to their massive detector in northern Minnesota.
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Next Generation of Direct Detection Dark Matter Experiments Announced
The DOE Office of High Energy Physics and the NSF Physics Division have jointly selected a portfolio of projects for the “second generation” of direct detection dark matter experiments.
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US reveals its next generation of dark matter experiments
The Department of Energy and National Science Foundation will back the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search-SNOLAB, or SuperCDMS; the LUX-Zeplin experiment, or LZ; and the next iteration of the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, ADMX-Gen2.
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Massive neutrino detector moved into place
The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.
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MINOS result narrows field for sterile neutrinos
Data collected at the long-running MINOS experiment stacks evidence against the existence of these theoretical particles.
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A new heart for the ATLAS detector
US scientists collaborated with an international team to install a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
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