Physicists who study the most basic building blocks of the universe have just said goodbye to a beloved giant in their field. Not a fellow scientist, but rather, a machine. A huge device near Chicago ...

One of the world's most powerful atom smashers, the Tevatron, shut down Friday (Sept. 30), with the event streaming live online. The atom smasher is located at the Fermilab physics laboratory in ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of ...

Just after 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, Fermilab accelerator pioneer Helen Edwards prepared to stop the circulation of subatomic particles in the Tevatron collider for the last time. She was a fitting ...

Fermilab’s Tevatron particle accelerator will cease operations at the end of September as originally planned, despite calls to extend operations for a further three years. The decision – made by the ...

At 8pm BST today in prairie land just outside Chicago, a feat that is unlikely to be repeated in my lifetime will occur for the last time: man-made collisions of high-energy protons and anti-protons.

After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest ...

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Tevatron will shut down by the end of September, the U.S. Department of Energy has announced, dashing hopes that the 25-year-old atom smasher in Batavia, ...

BATAVIA, Ill. (WBBM/STMW) - The Tevatron -- the premier particle accelerator in the world for more than two decades -- will be shut down in September at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Fermilab ...

As work continues to complete the Large Hadron Collider in Europe and plans develop around the world for an International Linear Collider, one accelerator at the energy frontier is open for business ...

After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest ...