The IceCube observatory has detected neutrinos from an active galaxy for the first time, revealing clues about how supermassive black holes gobble matter.
On the hunt for new particles, Leon Lederman’s team “found” one that turned out to be a trick of the data. Then, a year after the “Oops-Leon” incident, they discovered the real deal.
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.
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.