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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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12/07/17

The PhD pioneers

Wenzhao Wei and Dan Rederth are the first to earn physics PhDs within the state of South Dakota.

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12/05/17

Radio lab

Have a question for Fermilab? Tune in to a Fermilab frequency over the next two weeks.

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11/28/17

LHC data: how it’s made

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data.

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