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Inside the search for dark matter

12/17/24

Ali Sundermier

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

Illustration: A student scientist embroiders their graduation cap with atom

05/07/24

Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning

Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it?

Illustration of a scientist cutting a piece of bias tape with scissors

05/06/24

A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence

Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe.

Illustration of a scientist pinpointing part of a galaxy through the lens of a magnifying glass

05/01/24

AI for control rooms

Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance with complex tasks.

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04/30/24

Machine learning and theory

Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and eliminate untenable theories—but could they transform what it means to make discoveries?

Illustration of a scientist knitting an image of a galaxy

04/25/24

Machine learning and experiment

For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater complexity.

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04/23/24

A collaborative ecosystem

Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.

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04/18/24

Physics vocabulary: AI edition

Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? Symmetry is here to help.

$Conceptual illustration of wool being spun into refracted light$

04/17/24

Symmetry’s guide to AI in particle physics and astrophysics

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.

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