07/05/22 CERN LHCb discovers three new exotic particles The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks.”
07/04/22 Nature Happy birthday, Higgs boson! What we do and don’t know about the particle Physicists are celebrating 10 years since the Higgs boson’s discovery. But many of its properties remain mysterious.
07/02/22 Gizmodo 10 years after the Higgs boson, what's the next big thing for physics? Gizmodo asked physicists to predict the discoveries that will blow our minds in the coming years.
07/01/22 Physics World Discovering the Higgs boson: a day in physics like no other Achintya Rao recollects the momentous day 10 years ago when CERN announced it had discovered the Higgs boson.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement 09/24/24 Regina Demina and Kathryn Jepsen The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?
12/19/17 Machine evolution Planning the next big science machine requires consideration of both the current landscape and the distant future.
12/15/17 A trip into totality This summer, physics students were offered a unique opportunity to study cosmic rays during the total solar eclipse.
12/12/17 Physics books of 2017 Gravitational waves take the top spot in Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s yearly round-up of popular science books related to physics and astrophysics.
12/07/17 The PhD pioneers Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics PhDs within the state of South Dakota.
12/05/17 Radio lab Have a question for Fermilab? Tune in to a Fermilab frequency over the next two weeks.
11/28/17 LHC data: how it’s made In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.
11/22/17 A flight path to physics success Sandra Miarecki went from Air Force pilot to neutrino physicist.
11/21/17 Putting the puzzle together Successful physics collaborations rely on cooperation between people from many different disciplines.