02/14/23 Scientific American Has anyone created a black hole on Earth? A lab-made black hole is beyond current technology but could be possible one day.
02/10/23 CERN Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, CERN asked six scientists to share their stories.
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.
Recognizing Rosemary Fowler 11/05/24 Pruthvi Mehta A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.
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.
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.