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NOIRLab observing specialists Carlos Morales (left) and Karla Peña (right) in the Rubin summit control room at Rubin’s mountaintop site of Cerro Pachón, Chile.

Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin control room

09/23/25

Gaëlle Suter

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

10/15/24

A first-person view of physics history

Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.

Conceptual illustration of a factory production line with robot arms with a particle collision in the center

10/08/24

US physicists prioritize closer study of the Higgs

Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.

Conceptual illustration of cosmic rays with students in the background

10/01/24

Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day

Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s cosmic visitors.

Conceptual illustration of two similar worlds directly opposite of one another

09/24/24

Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement

The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?

09/17/24

New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest

Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics community for decades.

Illustration of a W boson among a pattern of masks

09/10/24

Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson

Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.

Conceptual illustration of random objects with a gorilla in the center

09/03/24

Physics beyond the imaginable

The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.

LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.

08/26/24

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

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.

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