09/14/22 Science News Falling objects in orbit show Einstein was right — again An experiment provides the most precise confirmation yet of a key tenet of general relativity.
09/12/22 BBC Science Focus We've made a map of dark matter but still don't know what it is, and that's okay The exact nature of dark matter remains elusive.
09/04/22 Wall Street Journal Europe’s energy crunch squeezes world’s largest particle collider CERN is drafting plans to idle its particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider, if France runs short of electricity.
08/31/22 Science News Physicists dispute a claim of detecting a black hole’s ‘photon ring’ If real, the thin ring of light would probe the gravity around a black hole in a new way.
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter 08/26/24 Lauren Biron New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.
08/21/18 How’s it going, LIGO? The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has a new digital assistant.
08/16/18 ICARUS neutrino detector installed at Fermilab With this move, ICARUS now sits in the path of Fermilab's neutrino beam, a milestone that brings the detector one step closer to taking data.
08/14/18 Rising stars of multi-messenger astronomy A year after detecting a neutron star collision, scientists are excited for the future of multi-messenger astronomy and astrophysics.
08/09/18 Tour du LHC An intrepid Symmetry writer and communicator at CERN navigates the landscape above the Large Hadron Collider by bicycle.
08/07/18 A dual-phase DUNE The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is advancing technology commonly used in dark matter experiments—and scaling it up to record-breaking sizes.
08/01/18 Machine learning proliferates in particle physics A new review in Nature chronicles the many ways machine learning is popping up in particle physics research.
07/24/18 Rewiring STEM education The idea that science skills are innate and great discoveries are made only by “lone geniuses” is losing traction in STEM.