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07/11/19

Satellite galaxies provide new clues about dark matter

A new study shows that light dark matter is 1000 times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous analyses allowed.

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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.

08/01/09

Weak neutral current

The Gargamelle collaboration at the European laboratory CERN began operating its bubble chamber in the early 1970s, shooting neutrinos through 12,000 liters of Freon, a heavy liquid.

08/01/09

Takuya Uruno: Kasoku Kids

In Japanese, Takuya Urunos first name means "pioneer." In his 25-year career as a professional Manga artist, Uruno has been steadfast in living up to the title.

08/01/09

South Pole physics is not for wimps

Ed Wu has never been to space, but he probably has a better idea of what it's like than the rest of us.

08/01/09

He stalks rare prey for its own good

Tom Peterson loves hunting season. He spends his lunch hours scouting the best spots, and weekends lurking around the edges of Fermilab's ponds and moving as silently as he can through old fields.

08/01/09

Imagine a house-sized acrylic fishbowl inside a giant, shiny, disco-ball-like sphere, suspended in a cavern as tall as a 10-story building. Now imagine climbing around inside that pitch-dark fishbowl with a squeegee and a flashlight.

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08/01/09

Cherenkov light

Cherenkov light is the optical equivalent of a sonic boom.

08/01/09

Physics talk 2.0

From his California office, Doug Dechow stretched out on a grassy hill and listened to a particle physics lecture taking place in Chicago.

08/01/09

Superconducting technology, Chicago style

Fermilab is cooking up a hot technology—and the serving is ultracold. The laboratory is stepping up efforts to develop and test superconducting radio-frequency cavities, a key technology for the next generation of particle accelerators and the future of particle physics.

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