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Inside the search for dark matter

12/17/24

Ali Sundermier

About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.

01/08/24

Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into the expansion of the universe

In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning.

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12/19/23

Bringing eclipsed women of astronomy and physics into the light

In Her Space, Her Time, physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led some of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy and physics.

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12/18/23

Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC

Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum entanglement.

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12/12/23

What’s so hard about measuring the strong force?

The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still a long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force.

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12/08/23

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.

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11/30/23

What is the electroweak force?

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.

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11/21/23

The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE

Phenomenologists must make precise predictions for what they expect DUNE data to look like.

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11/14/23

LHC physicists can’t save them all

As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything.

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