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Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement

09/24/24

Regina Demina and Kathryn Jepsen

The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?

02/04/20

Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it.

01/28/20

When observed parameters seem like they must be finely tuned to fit a theory, some physicists accept it as coincidence. Others want to keep digging.

01/23/20

Science Storytellers brings together two groups of innately curious individuals: scientists and children.

01/21/20

As technology improves, scientists discover new ways to search for theorized dark matter particles called axions.

01/16/20

The first undergraduate on the Event Horizon Telescope to receive junior collaborator status thrives in the unknown.

01/14/20

To both understand the universe and improve equity, inclusion and diversity in physics, Brian Beckford looks to one word: respect.

01/09/20

A forthcoming upgrade to the IceCube detector will provide deeper insights into the elusive particles.

01/07/20

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be named for an influential astronomer who left the field better than she found it.