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The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon.

09/26/23

Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon

LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.

09/25/23

Tending to a giant

In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak inside the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of a particle in the middle of a hall of mirrors

09/19/23

What is neutral naturalness?

Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of galaxies in a Petri dish

09/12/23

Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

09/05/23

Rap with an undercurrent of particle physics

UK musician Consensus spins the big ideas of physics into rap and hip-hop tracks.

08/29/23

Life along the future DUNE beamline

Unseen neutrinos, visible lives: A photographer journeys through the Midwest.

Illustration of the observatory next to people standing on stacks of books

08/22/23

Vera C. Rubin Observatory brings the universe to everyone

The Rubin Observatory is making education and outreach a top priority.

Monet footbridge painting with close-up detail

08/15/23

Seeing the full picture with line-intensity mapping

Scientists are championing a relatively new technique as a method to understand the structure of the early universe in three dimensions.

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