11/07/21 NPR He always wanted a PhD in physics. He finally earned it at 89 Manfred Steiner had a successful and productive career as a doctor. But all along, he had a nagging feeling he should be doing something else: studying physics.
11/04/21 New York Times A new 10-year plan for the cosmos On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope to search for life and habitable worlds beyond Earth.
11/04/21 Scientific American Can sterile neutrinos exist? Physicists have wondered if neutrino particles come in a mysterious fourth variety. Now new experimental findings complicate the question.
10/28/21 Quanta Is the great neutrino puzzle pointing to multiple missing particles? Years of conflicting neutrino measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles.
The boson that physics almost rejected 07/02/24 Claire Malone Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name.
11/08/16 The origins of dark matter Theorists think dark matter was forged in the hot aftermath of the Big Bang.
11/03/16 Is there a dark energy particle? A theoretical particle that adapts to its surroundings could explain the accelerating expansion of our universe.
10/31/16 In search of a parallel universe What are parallel universes, and why do we think they might exist?
10/27/16 A bright idea Can a biochemistry technique win the battle against background for scientists studying the nature of neutrinos?
10/25/16 A primer on gravitational-wave detectors Physicists are searching for gravitational waves all across the spectrum.
10/12/16 Citizen scientists join search for gravitational waves A new project pairs volunteers and machine learning to sort through data from LIGO.