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10/03/22
BBC Future

Why does time go forwards, not backwards?

The arrow of time began its journey at the Big Bang, and when the universe eventually dies there will be no more future and no past. In the meantime, what is it that drives time ever onward?

09/29/22
Science

Clash of the titans

The United States and Japan are embarking on ambitious efforts to wring a key secret of the universe from the subatomic phantoms known as neutrinos.

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The LSSTCam covers 21 times more area on the sky in every image

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.

Photo of many CUWiP programs include a poster session where students have the opportunity to describe research
05/08/18

Leveling the playing field

Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics aims to encourage more women and gender minorities to pursue careers in physics and improve diversity in the field.

Photo of a row of slim silver objects sit in the center of a tube
04/11/18

Right on target

These hardy physics components live at the center of particle production.

Illustration of particles sneaking into Higgs field, scientists watch with binoculars from bushes (green, pink, teal, cyan)
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.

Illustration of four Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots representing the four particles in the Sub Smackdown (blue, red, purple, green)
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.

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