A film about scientists questing through a world of classrooms and computer screens for an invisible theoretical particle and debating harder-than-diamond scientific theory sounds less destined for ...

Nickelodeon Theatres is teaming up with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at UCSC for a special Q&A discussion on opening night of the award-winning documentary “Particle Fever” on ...

Stakes come no higher than in Particle Fever, a dazzling, dizzying documentary about nothing less than whether we exist in a coherent universe of ordered, even beautiful laws — or whether, as ...

News broke on Wednesday that reverberated though the world of science. Well, wobbled is more like it. A New York Times headline declared that new particle research could “rewrite the laws of physics,” ...

Only a quarter of Americans accept evolution as fact, but at least science is hot at the box office (for now). “Interstellar” is exposing millions to black holes, wormholes and relativity; “The Theory ...

Illustration of luminescence-based multi-point temperature determination inside an opaque packed bed loaded with 6 color-marked spheres coated with luminescent materials. Left, right: examples of ...

What's possibly the nerdiest documentary ever made turns out to be one of the most inspiring, too. It's the inside story of the quest for a tiny,... All you really need to know about Particle Fever is ...

Every once in a while if you are lucky, smart or know the right people, you might encounter a scene on the Santa Cruz coastline where something special is happening. The dolphins are jumping, whales ...

The great Walter Murch edited this documentary about the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, and the experiments leading up to the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012. It’s a ...

A musical about particle physics is under development, with David Henry Hwang, the playwright behind “M. Butterfly.” By Dennis Overbye On a recent Friday afternoon in a basement room in Midtown ...