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‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

02/20/14

Statistically significant

Michelangelo D’Agostino taps his physics ingenuity daily as a data scientist.

Photo of BaBar coil arrives in cargo plane

02/18/14

BaBar still breaking new ground

Twenty years after a cutting-edge particle physics experiment at SLAC adopted a royal elephant from a series of children’s books as its mascot, BaBar (the experiment, not the elephant) is still looking ahead to future discoveries.

Illustration of physicists to follow on Twitter

02/07/14

#FollowFriday IV: Physicists to follow on Twitter

In the final installment (for now) of #FollowFriday, symmetry highlights four more physicists on Twitter.

02/06/14

Virtual field trips take students into the labs

Teachers are using Google+ to bring their classes behind the scenes at national laboratories and to teach students about careers in STEM.

02/05/14

Couple's history intertwined with 60 years of CERN

A pair of scientists who have been at CERN since almost the very beginning still often find themselves in the laboratory’s cafeteria, arguing physics.

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01/31/14

#FollowFriday III: Physicists to follow on Twitter

Meet four more physicists who talk about their work on Twitter in symmetry’s third installment of #FollowFriday.

01/30/14

Watch the next big neutrino experiment come together

A video from Fermilab highlights some of the many steps needed to build the largest neutrino experiment in the United States.

01/28/14

Quantum entanglement

Through ‘spooky action at a distance,’ the properties of two systems remain correlated even after they are separated.

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