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 ...

Even as it’s slated for retirement, Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider may be providing its successor, the Large Hadron Collider, with directions to some new physics. Recently, researchers with the ...

One of the world's most powerful "atom smashers", at the leading edge of scientific discovery for a quarter of a century, has been shut down. The Tevatron facility near Chicago fired its last particle ...

After smashing atoms together for 26 years, the Tevatron particle accelerator powered down on Friday. The 4-mile-long ring-shaped accelerator, located at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in ...