Fermilab's Tevatron goes offline today, bringing to an end a rich era in American experimental physics (well, an end to the experimentation itself; there's still data to analyize). The wake begins at ...

Helen Edwards was a formidable force in the field of accelerator science, whose impact can still be felt around the world today. Anita Chandran finds out more about her contributions to particle ...

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 ...

Friday marks the end of Fermilab's Tevatron, and the "era of big American physics is about to end": It seems unlikely that the United States, which once dominated the field and reaped the rewards of ...

Last week, I flew out a day ahead of our staff meeting in Chicago. Instead of enjoying the Windy City, however, I headed west, deep into Chicago’s western suburbs. About an hour outside the city, past ...

Like an old and celebrated race track, the giant particle accelerator known as the Tevatron is down to its final laps. Shortly after 2 p.m. on 30 September, with reporters watching by video link from ...

Since the 1980s, the US government’s Chicago-area Fermilab has been at the forefront of high-energy physics. That’s in large part thanks to the Tevatron, the machine that first reached the energies ...

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.