08/26/22 WIRED Where do high-energy cosmic rays come from? A star’s last gasp Researchers compiled data from several telescopes to show that explosive stellar death can generate some of the fastest particles in the universe.
08/25/22 Science News ‘Chameleon’ forces remain elusive in a new dark energy experiment A hypothetical fifth force that morphs based on its environs didn’t turn up.
08/22/22 University of Melbourne Digging deep for dark matter A laboratory at the bottom of a gold mine in rural Victoria could make one of the biggest scientific discoveries ever – proving the existence of dark matter.
08/17/22 Science News Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, a new study suggests Physicists have speculated for decades that protons may also host more massive quarks, called “intrinsic” charm quarks.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD 07/25/24 Sarah Charley Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
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.
07/24/18 Accelerator excellence Fermilab’s Lia Merminga talks to Symmetry about her early experiences in STEM and her drive to solve science’s unanswered questions.
07/17/18 Rise of the machines Machine learning will become an even more important tool when scientists upgrade to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
07/16/18 The LHC’s computing revolution Making new discoveries may require writing new software first.