04/22/24 CERN CERN's edge AI data analysis techniques used to detect marine plastic pollution CERN’s expertise in data management is leveraged to combat marine plastic litter through the new EU project, Edge SpAIce.
04/18/24 CERN Courier The coolest job in physics Recent IceCube “winterover” Marc Jacquart shares his experience of working in a cool but hostile environment.
04/10/24 CERN ATLAS provides first measurement of the W-boson width at the LHC The measurement is the most precise yet made by a single experiment.
04/09/24 New York Times Peter Higgs, Nobelist who predicted the ‘God particle,’ dies at 94 The Higgs boson, named for him, is a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulates all human knowledge so far about elementary particles.
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?
05/16/23 Searching for the matter that hides its shine Just because matter is visible doesn’t mean it’s easy to see.
05/09/23 Collaboration builds fantastical stories from nuggets of truth What happens when you pair CERN scientists with science fiction writers to create short stories inspired by particle physics?
05/02/23 Encouraging a new community Physicists advocate for getting community college students involved in research.
04/25/23 Whatever happened to the theory of everything? A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go?
04/18/23 Practice makes perfect (particle detectors) Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II.
04/04/23 Is dark matter the most powerful wave in the universe? Dark matter could consist of particles so ultralight, they behave more like waves.
03/28/23 A collaboration pairs Fermilab with fashion students Fashion students at the College of DuPage successfully designed gear to protect Fermilab’s SPOT robot from radioactive dust.
03/14/23 How to put together an international physics experiment To build the DUNE neutrino experiment and its associated accelerator upgrade, experts invent customized ways to transport fragile, expensive and highly specialized components.