01/10/22 Scientific American ArXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server.
01/05/22 ScienceNews Antiprotons show no hint of unexpected matter-antimatter differences Protons and their antimatter counterparts mirror one another in a new ultra-precise measurement.
12/13/21 Quanta Cosmologists parry attacks on the vaunted cosmological principle A central pillar of cosmology—the universe is the same everywhere and in all directions—is surviving a storm of possible evidence against it.
12/13/21 The Washington Post Discovering Dr. Wu The world reveres Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma.
Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day 10/01/24 Chris Patrick Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s cosmic visitors.
10/12/16 Citizen scientists join search for gravitational waves A new project pairs volunteers and machine learning to sort through data from LIGO.
10/11/16 Recruiting team geoneutrino Physicists and geologists are forming a new partnership to study particles from inside the planet.
10/04/16 Creating the universe in a computer Computer simulations help cosmologists unlock the mystery of how the universe evolved.
09/16/16 The secret lives of long-lived particles A theoretical species of particle might answer nearly every question about our cosmos—if scientists can find it.
09/13/16 The hunt for the truest north Many theories predict the existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them.