In the Ardennes hills near Givet, in eastern France, stands Chooz nuclear power station, with its twin concrete cooling towers spewing steam. Here scientists may soon catch some neutrinos and break one of the most enigmatic secrets of the universe.

Over the weekend, the Minnesota Interagency Fire Center provided updates on the situation at the Soudan Underground Mine, which houses two Fermilab experiments.

Slamming protons together isn’t the only way physicists make sparks. At least, not anymore.

This week Eugene will be host to the American debut of another kind of physics experiment, called the Physics Slam.

Descending on the University of Oregon this week are 200 leading physicists from around the world, collaborating on a project while trying to explain their work in layman’s terms to the public.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider may be on the verge of discovering a new particle, according to mounting evidence from experiments at Fermilab’s Tevatron.

Judging by its behavior, it’s not the Higgs.

When you’re a physicist in town for a linear collider conference, what do you do for fun? You hold a physics slam, DUH! At least that’s what members of the American Linear Collider Physics Group decided to do.

During an earthquake, tsunami, or nuclear meltdown, the safest place to be is in a mine.

So says Stuart Freedman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s spokesperson for the KamLAND neutrino experiment, whose 1879 glass photomultiplier tubes emerged from the earthquake unscathed.