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This video describes the function and 3-D structure of a protein complex that provides the ultrafast trigger for chemical messages sent between nerve cells in our brains.

This video describes how the Linac Coherent Light Source, an X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, provided the first direct measurements of how a ring-shaped gas molecule unravels in the millionths of a billionth of a second after...

This video explains how researchers at SLAC are using a method known as ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) to develop an atomic-level understanding of how metals melt, which could help them design materials for applications where materials have to withstand extreme...

An Exploration of Art & Physics

The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.

In a newly announced result from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, scientists have placed a more stringent limit on "light," or low-mass, dark matter. SLAC and Stanford members of CDMS created the detectors used in the search, and SLAC...

Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.

This weekend, a panel developing a new strategic plan for US particle physics will hold the first in a series of town hall meetings.

In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.

Think you can do better than the Symmetry staff? Send us your poems!

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.

This month, Symmetry presents a series of articles on the past, present and future of quantum research—and its many connections to particle physics, astrophysics and computing.