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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.

05/14/19

In their quest to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, physicists weigh the pros and cons of different search strategies.

05/07/19

Take a (brief) journey through the early history of our cosmos.

05/02/19

It’s not always about what you discover.

04/30/19

Physics professor Jason Nordhaus is working to reduce barriers to STEM for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

04/25/19

Building a particle physics laboratory requires more than physicists.

04/23/19

Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?

04/18/19

Scientists think that, under some circumstances, dark matter could generate powerful enough gravitational waves for equipment like LIGO to detect.

04/16/19

One of the latest discoveries from the LHC takes the properties of photons beyond what your electrodynamics teacher will tell you in class.