02/06/23 WIRED At last, the Milky Way gets a better close-up The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them.
02/03/23 CBC A physicist looks at the experiments that gave us the modern picture of matter Particle physicist Suzie Sheehy reviews how we came to understand the subatomic world.
02/01/23 Yale News Enchanted by science as a child, Yale physicist now probes quantum riddles Yale quantum physicist Charles D. Brown II reflects on his entry into the scientific life—and his research in quantum simulation.
01/26/23 Berkeley Lab Lost video of Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang Theory, recovered European broadcast network VRT found a 20-minute recording that is thought to be the only video of Lemaître.
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.
04/11/19 LHCb results add clues to pentaquark mystery A re-examination of a particle discovered in 2015 has scientists debating its true identity.
04/10/19 Astronomers capture first image of a black hole The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.
04/09/19 All hands on deck Some theorists have taken to designing their own experiments to broaden the search for dark matter.
04/02/19 Considering the whole student Meet three scientists connected by the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program.
03/28/19 Why LHC physics is like ‘Starcraft’ Video games and physics have more in common than you might think.
03/26/19 To PhD or not to PhD Respondents to Symmetry’s survey about what it’s like to earn a PhD in particle physics or astrophysics offer their views of the experience.
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.