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01/23/25

Chris Patrick

SNOLAB scientists meticulously measure the signals that interfere with sensitive physics experiments.

06/08/17

In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.

06/06/17

An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the US.

05/30/17

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

05/26/17

The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”

05/16/17

At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.

05/09/17

The authors of We Have No Idea remind us that there are still many unsolved mysteries in science.

05/04/17

A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.

04/27/17

Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.