03/06/24 ScienceNews Forests might serve as enormous neutrino detectors To detect ultra-high energy neutrinos, scientists need huge detectors.
03/01/24 Nature How heavy is a neutrino? Race to weigh mysterious particle heats up Physicists discuss experiments that could improve laboratory measurements of the super-light particle’s mass.
02/23/24 The Guardian Quantum physics makes small leap with microscopic gravity measurement The experiment recorded minuscule gravitational pull as a step toward understanding how force operates at the subatomic level.
02/21/24 Fermilab Scientists get ready to observe neutrinos with SBND After nearly a decade of planning, prototyping and construction, the Short-Baseline Near Detector collaboration is in the final stretch of commissioning of their detector.
Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day 10/01/24 Chris Patrick Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s cosmic visitors.
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.
08/30/22 Meet Quantum Kate The animated YouTube series Quantum Kate is a teenager’s guide to modern physics.
08/23/22 Accelerator operators: pillars of particle physics It takes years of on-the-job training to learn the ins and outs of particle accelerator operation.
08/16/22 Design thinking and the Disco-tracker As part of a class on design thinking, a graduate student turned her research topic into an art installation resembling a giant disco ball.
08/09/22 Four (more) things you might not know about antimatter It’s around you, it’s a part of you, and scientists are still trying to figure it out.
08/04/22 Why aren’t neutrinos adding up? Physicists take on the mystery of the missing (and extra) neutrinos.
08/02/22 6 views of working in particle physics without a PhD Symmetry chats with scientists and engineers about doing important work in physics without a doctoral degree.
07/26/22 Ximena Cid builds community by cherishing her roots Ximena Cid found her place in STEM by embracing her identity. Now she helps others do the same.