BATAVIA, Ill. — University physicist Myron Campbell was one of hundreds of scientists who watched a close friend of almost 28 years get put to rest on Friday. The companion was the Tevatron particle ...

This article was updated at 8:58 p.m. ET 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's the situation facing researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago: Some researchers are squeezing the last ounce of performance out of the 24-year-old Tevatron ...

Scientists discovered a new particle by comparing data recorded at the LHC and the Tevatron. In 2018, physicist Carlos Avila received a thrilling request from an old colleague. “It was the type of ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined benefit. “Knowledge is a form of wealth,” he replied. “It is an investment.” ...