04/16/13 LHC passes ‘ping-pong ball’ test Physicists send an ultra-clean, miniature ping-pong ball through part of the Large Hadron Collider beam pipe to test for hidden defects.
04/16/13 Nature News Higgs data could spell trouble for leading big bang theory Planck results combined with LHC findings raise new questions about cosmic inflation.
04/16/13 Wired Higgs boson outdraws Internet cats, Kim Kardashian “Higgs boson” was briefly more popular than “cats” and “Kim Kardashian” combined.
04/15/13 BBC News Dark matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues Researchers have revealed potential hints of the elusive material called dark matter.
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.