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.
Testing, testing! 01/15/25 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just successfully completed a series of full-system tests using an engineering test camera.
09/04/18 Changing the game Willie Rockward applied to college with pro football dreams, but a physics scholarship set him on a different path.
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.