12/04/22 The Guardian ‘Are we alone in the universe?’: work begins in Western Australia on world’s most powerful radio telescopes More than 100,000 antennas will be built on Wajarri country, enabling astronomers to peek billions of years back to the ‘cosmic dawn.’
12/02/22 Ars Technica No, physicists didn’t make a real wormhole. What they did was still pretty cool "Don't hold your breath about sending your dog through a wormhole."
12/02/22 New York Times Physicists create 'the smallest, crummiest wormhole you can imagine' Scientists used a quantum computer to explore the ultimate escape route from a black hole.
12/01/22 Quanta Crucial computer program for particle physics at risk of obsolescence Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia.
Physics beyond the imaginable 09/03/24 Sarah Charley The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.
03/19/19 ‘Entangle’ exhibit fuels imagination with physics A Swedish university tapped the founding director of CERN’s artist-in-residence program to curate a new art exhibit inspired by physics.
03/14/19 The potential of plasma wakefield acceleration Scientists around the world are testing ways to further boost the power of particle accelerators while drastically shrinking their size.
03/12/19 Decolonizing science through sci comm Science writer Sibusiso Biyela aims to bring science back to South Africa’s Zulu communities.
03/05/19 A tiny new experiment at the LHC The story of the latest experiment approved for installation at the Large Hadron Collider starts with a theorist and a question about dark matter.
02/26/19 10 words that mean something different to physicists Some of this science sounds awfully familiar.
02/22/19 The bubble chamber sand mandala One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier.
02/19/19 An astronomical data challenge The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will manage unprecedented volumes of data produced each night.
02/14/19 Taking a collider to the dark energy problem Every second, the universe grows a little bigger. Scientists are using the LHC to try to find out why.