12/04/22 The Guardian ‘Are we alone in the universe?’: work begins in Western Australia on world’s most powerful radio telescopes More than 100,000 antennas will be built on Wajarri country, enabling astronomers to peek billions of years back to the ‘cosmic dawn.’
12/02/22 Ars Technica No, physicists didn’t make a real wormhole. What they did was still pretty cool "Don't hold your breath about sending your dog through a wormhole."
12/02/22 New York Times Physicists create 'the smallest, crummiest wormhole you can imagine' Scientists used a quantum computer to explore the ultimate escape route from a black hole.
12/01/22 Quanta Crucial computer program for particle physics at risk of obsolescence Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia.
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.
12/11/18 Physics books of 2018 Symmetry writer Mike Perricone presents his annual compilation of new popular science books related to particle physics and astrophysics.
12/06/18 Top quark couture What do you give a physicist who helped discover a fundamental particle and jump-started your science career?
11/30/18 Heavy-ion researchers seize their moment During the short heavy-ion run at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, every moment counts.
11/15/18 Physics footage from a Monkee 1970s video footage recorded by musician Micky Dolenz when he visited the then-nascent Fermilab is now available on YouTube.
11/13/18 Gravitational lenses Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists understand the evolving shape of the universe.
11/08/18 From GED to PhD Physicist Kira Burt dropped out of school at 16. Now she teaches students that anyone can be a scientist.
11/06/18 The quest to test quantum entanglement Quantum entanglement, doubted by Einstein, has passed increasingly stringent tests.