Understanding the origins of our solar system, the future of our planet or humanity requires complex calculations run on high-power computers.

After working with particle accelerators his entire professional career, Heather Rock Woods’ father placed himself in the path of a beam to fight cancer.

Differences between two types of black-hole-powered galaxies may reflect a change in how the galaxies extract energy from their central black holes.

Students estimate their way through pop culture problems to learn a life skill.

A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model.

The Open Science Grid enables faster, more efficient analysis of LHC data—and also contributes to advancements in fields from geology to medicine.

The 30-ton MicroBooNE detector, the cornerstone of Fermilab’s short-baseline neutrino program, will see neutrinos this year.

Efforts are already underway to ensure that the data the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope  collects will be ready to be mined for scientific gold.

Grad Students and Postdocs Get a Crash Course in Using X-ray Lasers

SLAC scientist Michael Kelsey sees connections between the communities of physicists and do-it-yourselfers.

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work.

Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale