02/06/23 WIRED At last, the Milky Way gets a better close-up The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them.
02/03/23 CBC A physicist looks at the experiments that gave us the modern picture of matter Particle physicist Suzie Sheehy reviews how we came to understand the subatomic world.
02/01/23 Yale News Enchanted by science as a child, Yale physicist now probes quantum riddles Yale quantum physicist Charles D. Brown II reflects on his entry into the scientific life—and his research in quantum simulation.
01/26/23 Berkeley Lab Lost video of Georges Lemaître, father of the Big Bang Theory, recovered European broadcast network VRT found a 20-minute recording that is thought to be the only video of Lemaître.
Don’t call it toponium 04/01/25 Sarah Charley A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
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.
07/05/18 Out in physics LGBT+ scientists offer advice for promoting inclusivity in a guide written for the physics and astronomy community.
07/04/18 Higgs search alumni: Where are they now? Meet four physicists who have found different ways to apply the skills they learned through their studies of the Higgs boson.