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.
04/23/20 Scientific American Antimatter discovery reveals clues about the universe’s beginning New evidence from neutrinos points to one of several theories about why the cosmos is made of matter and not antimatter.
A first-person view of physics history 10/15/24 Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.
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.
07/02/13 Secrets of the early universe Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.
07/01/13 Big data and the X-ray laser Ultrafast experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source require powerful, unique data systems adapted from particle physics.
06/28/13 Fermilab produces its first potential astronaut Josh Cassada, accepted into NASA’s exclusive 2013 astronaut candidate class, cut his scientific teeth doing particle physics research at Fermilab.