12/08/22 APS News January 1976: From the “Oops-Leon” to the Upsilon Particle On the hunt for new particles, Leon Lederman’s team “found” one that turned out to be a trick of the data. Then, a year after the “Oops-Leon” incident, they discovered the real deal.
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.
The quantum chase 11/26/24 Laura Dattaro Some friendly competition led up to the first discovery of entanglement at the Large Hadron Collider.
10/18/18 Five mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain Our best model of particle physics explains only about 5 percent of the universe.
10/16/18 Studying the stars with machine learning To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.
10/16/18 Looking for dark matter using quantum technology Fermilab scientists are harnessing quantum technology in the search for dark matter.
10/09/18 Progress in plasma wakefield acceleration for positrons Three new studies show the promise and challenge of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build a future electron-positron collider.
10/04/18 The 3-ton ruler A specialized measuring machine at SLAC is helping scientists build precise detectors for the ATLAS experiment.
09/27/18 Life as an accelerator operator Behind some of the world’s biggest scientific instruments are teams with a set of skills you can’t find anywhere else.
09/25/18 How not to be fooled in physics Particle physicists and astrophysicists employ a variety of tools to avoid erroneous results.
09/20/18 Dark matter vibes SuperCDMS physicists are testing a way to amp up dark matter vibrations to help them search for lighter particles.