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Conceptual illustration of a Higgs particle doing research while suspended in mid air

‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

04/01/10

Holy beam line! The red phone is ringing

When a villain threatened Gotham City, Commissioner Gordon picked up a bright red phone to call Batman. During the Cold War, a Moscow-to-Washington "red phone" served as a hotline to prevent nuclear attacks. Now SLAC has its own red phone.

04/01/10

John Gilbey tweaks the future

John Gilbey is a writer, photographer, educator, and project manager at Aberystwyth University in Wales. For the past two decades, his fiction and non-fiction stories have appeared in the likes of Nature, New Scientist, and the Guardian.

04/01/10

High schoolers catch some (cosmic) rays

Ben Nachman and several friends climbed out on the roof of Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska, hauling a tangle of wires and what resembled a car-top luggage carrier. The high school juniors weren't pulling some elaborate prank.

04/01/10

Julian Voss-Andreae: Quantum concepts you can touch

Voss-Andreae goes beyond literal representation, infusing his quantum objects with philosophical interpretations.

04/01/10

Around the world in eight goofy minutes

Many a college student has built a room around a sturdy coffee table made from a cast-off wooden cable spool. But when two University of Wisconsin graduate students went to the South Pole they found spools put to a different use: as chariot wheels

04/01/10

A little wine with that physics?

Friends and colleagues of particle physicist Bill Wisniewski know him as a wine connoisseur.

04/01/10

A recycling tale that's hard to top

There's luck, and then there is LUCK. Brenna Flaugher has the latter.

02/01/10

Neutrino oscillation

In June 1998, Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo presented strong evidence that neutrinos behave differently than predicted by the Standard Model of particles: The three known types of neutrinos apparently transform into each other, a phenomenon known as oscillation.

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