04/07/23 Rapid City Journal SURF receives funding for major expansion By the end of the year, SURF Director Mike Headley hopes to finalize plans to get a clear idea of the geometry and dimensions of the two caverns to fit the future physics experiments.
04/03/23 Science News The W boson might not be heavier than expected after all The particle's mass is an important test of the Standard Model of particle physics.
03/29/23 CERN A spring awakening: CERN’s accelerators gear up for 2023 Following the winter shutdown, the injectors and accelerators are preparing for the 2023 data-taking season.
03/24/23 LHC experiments see four top quarks The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons.
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06/06/19 Sharing CERN with Nepal A dynamic duo at CERN is planting seeds to foster physics research in Nepal.
06/04/19 Engineering the world’s largest digital camera Building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope also means solving extraordinary technological challenges.
05/28/19 Brothers reunited on the ATLAS experiment Two brothers with very different career paths land on the same project at CERN.
05/21/19 From physics to data science Four physicists share their journeys through academia into industry and offer words of wisdom for those considering making a similar move.
05/14/19 Casting a wide net In their quest to discover physics beyond the Standard Model, physicists weigh the pros and cons of different search strategies.
04/30/19 A common language Physics professor Jason Nordhaus is working to reduce barriers to STEM for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.