The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s end marks a new beginning for U.S. particle physics

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...
Scientific American

The last great U.S. particle collider is no more. What comes next could be even better

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

Experiment clarifies cosmic origin of rare proton-rich isotope selenium-74

Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, ...
Gizmodo

Physicists Just Learned Something Major About the Proton

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that ...
Quanta Magazine

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

To make sense of cosmic rays, CERN team tracks a fragile nucleus

CERN's ALICE collaboration reveals how fragile deuterons survive high-energy collisions, impacting models of cosmic rays and ...