Fundamental physics

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

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s report, released today, recommends a strategic path forward for US particle physics.

The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel’s recommendations will set the course for the future of particle physics in the United States.

The Planck mission released a first glimpse of data that, later this year, will test BICEP2’s discovery of gravitational waves.

About 550 visitors from all over the Bay Area came to explore a wide range of the institute’s cosmic research topics.

In a few years, scientists will come out with a new map of a third of the sky, one that will go deeper and bring that depth into sharper focus than any survey has yet achieved.

An engineer at SLAC laboratory constructed a full-scale model of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's cryostat in his spare time.

SLAC recently hosted a forward-looking group of theoretical and experimental particle physicists. Their purpose: Follow the science to determine what a post-LHC collider could teach us about the universe.

Science is no longer the wallflower who doesn’t get asked to the dance, writes physicist Glen Crawford in an essay about science outreach past and present.

Students from US universities work on LHC experiments through a new research abroad program.

The recent BICEP2 discovery of evidence for cosmic inflation might point to new physics.

A new trigger system will expand what ATLAS scientists can look for during high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.