04/18/24 CERN Courier The coolest job in physics Recent IceCube “winterover” Marc Jacquart shares his experience of working in a cool but hostile environment.
04/10/24 CERN ATLAS provides first measurement of the W-boson width at the LHC The measurement is the most precise yet made by a single experiment.
04/09/24 New York Times Peter Higgs, Nobelist who predicted the ‘God particle,’ dies at 94 The Higgs boson, named for him, is a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulates all human knowledge so far about elementary particles.
04/05/24 CERN Large Hadron Collider reaches its first stable beams in 2024 This marks the beginning of physics for the third year of Run 3 of CERN’s flagship particle accelerator.
The quantum chase 11/26/24 Laura Dattaro Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider.
10/25/22 Physicists work to bring more undergrads into research Despite challenges, some physics faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions make research experiences available to students.
10/18/22 The next stage of cosmic microwave background research With CMB-S4, scientists hope to connect a sandy desert with a polar desert—and revolutionize our understanding of the early universe.
10/11/22 After fire and monsoons, DESI resumes cataloguing the cosmos Collaborators on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument breathe a sigh of relief as they successfully restart the state-of-the-art experiment.
10/04/22 15 spectacular photos from the Dark Energy Camera The powerful camera built for the Dark Energy Survey has taken more than 1 million photos from its perch in Chile. Here are some of the best.
09/27/22 An unplanned trajectory Cameo Lance spoke at an American Physical Society meeting about her winding path from an undergraduate degree in physics to the space industry.
09/20/22 Catching neutrinos at the LHC After the successful initiation of two new detectors, scientists have begun to envision an expanded suite of neutrino experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
09/13/22 The value of a physics identity Being able to see themselves as physicists can make or break students’ ability to thrive in the field.
09/06/22 Majorana Demonstrator finds ‘tantalizing’ new purpose Scientists are using a detector originally designed to study neutrinos to pin down an elusive nuclear physics measurement.
