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 ...

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 ...

You can never truly empty a box. Why? Zero-point energy. Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years A team of geologists found for the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Fermilab’s particle accelerator known as the Tevatron, a 4.26-mile underground loop that had been the leading facility of its kind in the world, will close Sept. 30, the lab near Batavia said today.

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.

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 ...

The Tevatron's Hail Mary shot at particle-physics glory may be fizzling in a puff of protons. New particles recently claimed one of the particle collider's detectors could not be confirmed by its ...

Physicists and dignitaries are gathering at Fermilab on the outskirts of Chicago to mark the final day of collisions at the Tevatron particle collider. The shutdown procedure will begin today at 2 p.m ...