05/05/20 Physics community designs simplified ventilator The Mechanical Ventilator Milano, or MVM, went from concept through approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in a little over a month.
05/05/20 NPR Shortwave What is dark energy? Physicists aren't even sure UC Berkeley PhD student Sarafina Nance discusses the mystery of dark energy.
05/04/20 Berkeley Lab Remembering George Trilling 1930 - 2020 George Trilling passed away on April 30 at the age of 89.
04/27/20 Fermilab Fighting COVID with computing Fermilab, Brookhaven and Open Science Grid—a network of organizations that provides computing services for science research—dedicate computational power to COVID-19 research.
Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson 09/10/24 Josh Bendavid and Sarah Charley Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.
09/25/13 More than a game Astrophysicists find a new use for the video cards that give computer games that movie quality: crunching scientific data.
09/24/13 The great physics quest In their search for fundamental truths, particle physicists have a lot in common with explorers everywhere.
09/23/13 Artists challenged to depict physics Through the “Collision” contest, 22 artists and scientists pushed themselves into new territory, portraying the concept of “new physics” through art.
09/13/13 The hunt for microscopic black holes Finding micro black holes at the LHC would alert scientists to the existence of extra dimensions, which might explain why gravity seems so weak.
09/06/13 Famous Higgs analogy, illustrated A Fermilab physicist and TED artists have created a short animation about the most famous description of the Higgs field.
08/29/13 ILC ink A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory is excited about the proposed International Linear Collider—and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.
08/27/13 Neutrinoless double beta decay The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay would suggest that, by itself, the Standard Model Higgs cannot give mass to neutrinos.