07/01/22 Physics World Discovering the Higgs boson: a day in physics like no other Achintya Rao recollects the momentous day 10 years ago when CERN announced it had discovered the Higgs boson.
06/30/22 Nature Physicists spellbound by deepening mystery of muon particle’s magnetism Theoretical predictions move closer to experimental results, but questions remain about possible gaps in the Standard Model of particle physics.
06/24/22 Scientific American How the Higgs boson ruined Peter Higgs’s life A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight
06/17/22 CERN CERN Council declares its intention to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and Belarus at their expiration dates in 2024 CERN was established in the aftermath of World War II to bring nations and people together for the peaceful pursuit of science.
Physics beyond the imaginable 09/03/24 Sarah Charley The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.
01/18/18 The biggest little detectors The ProtoDUNE detectors for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are behemoths in their own right.
01/10/18 Rivers in the sky Local communities named newly discovered stellar streams for bodies of water close to home.
12/21/17 Not an ugly sweater party University College London scientists make physics festive with sweaters and songs at their annual holiday gathering.
12/19/17 Machine evolution Planning the next big science machine requires consideration of both the current landscape and the distant future.
12/15/17 A trip into totality This summer, physics students were offered a unique opportunity to study cosmic rays during the total solar eclipse.
12/12/17 Physics books of 2017 Gravitational waves take the top spot in Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s yearly round-up of popular science books related to physics and astrophysics.