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Don’t call it toponium

04/01/25

Sarah Charley

A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.

07/08/13

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

Planck, the space telescope that this year revealed unprecedentedly detailed information about the early universe, is just getting started.

07/01/13

Ultrafast experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source require powerful, unique data systems adapted from particle physics.

06/28/13

Josh Cassada, accepted into NASA’s exclusive 2013 astronaut candidate class, cut his scientific teeth doing particle physics research at Fermilab.

06/25/13

Chart a course to knowledge with symmetry’s interactive map of all 17 US Department of Energy national laboratories.

06/18/13

Subatomic particles streaming from the Earth’s interior carry important evidence of the planet’s origins.

06/14/13

More than 30 years ago, a physicist honored a bet by naming a particle decay diagram after an aquatic bird.

06/11/13

Cherie Goodenough finds joy in seeing science research develop into products and applications.