01/10/22 Scientific American ArXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server.
01/05/22 ScienceNews Antiprotons show no hint of unexpected matter-antimatter differences Protons and their antimatter counterparts mirror one another in a new ultra-precise measurement.
12/13/21 Quanta Cosmologists parry attacks on the vaunted cosmological principle A central pillar of cosmology—the universe is the same everywhere and in all directions—is surviving a storm of possible evidence against it.
12/13/21 The Washington Post Discovering Dr. Wu The world reveres Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma.
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter 08/26/24 Lauren Biron New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.
12/06/16 Deep learning takes on physics Can the same type of technology Facebook uses to recognize faces also recognize particles?
12/02/16 Viewing our turbulent universe Construction has begun for the CTA, a discovery machine that will study the highest energy objects and events across the entire sky.
11/29/16 Hacking for humanity THE Port humanitarian hackathon at CERN brings people from multiple industries together to make the world a better place.
11/17/16 Q&A: What more can we learn about the Higgs? Four physicists discuss Higgs boson research since the discovery.
11/15/16 What to do with the data? Physicists and scientific computing experts prepare for an onslaught of petabytes.
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?