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.
Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino 10/29/24 Chris Patrick Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.
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.