08/10/16 Dark matter hopes dwindle with X-ray signal A previously detected, anomalously large X-ray signal is absent in new Hitomi satellite data, setting tighter limits for a dark matter interpretation.
08/10/16 CERN MoEDAL closes in on search for magnetic particle The MoEDAL experiment at CERN has narrowed the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
08/09/16 Berkeley Lab 3-D galaxy-mapping project enters construction phase DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, will measure light from 35 million galaxies to provide new clues about dark energy.
08/09/16 Sterile neutrinos in trouble The IceCube experiment reports ruling out to a high degree of certainty the existence of a theoretical low-mass sterile neutrino.
A first-person view of physics history 10/15/24 Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.