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.
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.
From sea to scientific sea 10/22/24 Laura Dattaro Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States.
05/01/18 Q&A: SLAC’s archivist closes a chapter Approaching retirement, Jean Deken describes what it’s like to preserve decades of collective scientific memory at a national lab.
04/24/18 The coevolution of physics and math Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa.
04/17/18 The world’s largest astronomical movie The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will track billions of objects for 10 years, creating unprecedented opportunities for studies of cosmic mysteries.
04/10/18 How to make a Higgs boson It doesn’t seem like collisions of particles with no mass should be able to produce the “mass-giving” boson, the Higgs. But every other second at the LHC, they do.
04/03/18 The big book of physics Looking for the latest info on particle physics? There’s a book for that.
03/30/18 Photon declared champion After a week of appreciation for each of the four particle contenders, the photon emerged as the winner in the Subatomic Smackdown.