04/09/20 Nature Six ways to juggle science and childcare from home In the face of COVID-19 restrictions on daily life, scientist-parents describe their efforts to balance family and work duties.
04/09/20 Fermilab The cold eyes of DUNE Industry does not typically use electronics that operate at cryogenic temperatures, so particle physicists have had to engineer their own.
04/08/20 CERN CERN establishes task force to contribute to global fight against COVID-19 Set up by the Director-General at the end of March, the CERN against COVID-19 task force has already received hundreds of messages suggesting ideas ranging from producing sanitizer gel to designing and building sophisticated medical equipment.
04/07/20 New York Times Will coronavirus freeze the search for dark matter? An experiment under 4,600 feet of Italian rock wasn’t immune from the pandemic’s interruption.
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.
08/05/13 Scientists compete in first physics slam on ice Six scientists battled in a Minnesota hockey arena to be named the best physics entertainer.
08/02/13 The tale of Fermilab’s ‘elephant doors’ A set of twin doors take on two very different purposes at Fermilab and Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo.
07/30/13 CERN artist-in-residence develops ear for physics Sound artist Bill Fontana taps into the music of the Large Hadron Collider.
07/23/13 From accelerator to art Fermilab physicist Todd Johnson spends his work and vacation hours with accelerators. What he produces during each are two very different things.
07/18/13 Real talk: Everything is made of fields Theorist Sean Carroll thinks it’s time you learned the truth: All of the particles you know—including the Higgs—are actually fields.
07/09/13 Detecting opportunity, in particle physics and beyond Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.
07/08/13 Physics and the birth of the emoticon Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.
