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The freckled universe

05/06/25

Madeleine O’Keefe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

12/17/24

Inside the search for dark matter

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.

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12/10/24

Antimatter on wheels

Writer Chetna Krishna follows CERN’s “coolest” transport, a test of a system to ship stored antimatter across the continent.

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12/03/24

New CERN course teaches particle physics basics online

The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental questions in particle physics.

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11/26/24

The quantum chase

Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument imaging the night sky in 2022

11/20/24

New DESI results weigh in on gravity

Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history.

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11/05/24

Recognizing Rosemary Fowler

A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.

10/29/24

Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino

Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.

Take a tour of the 17 National Laboratories across the United States

10/22/24

From sea to scientific sea

Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States.

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