11/23/21 Gizmodo What we will never know Science and technology have evolved, but some things may always be beyond human knowledge.
11/22/21 Gizmodo The world’s largest digital camera is almost ready to look back in time The Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera will scan the night sky in high resolution from its perch in Chile.
11/10/21 Gizmodo A famous dark matter signal is probably coming from something else An underground experiment in South Korea suggests an intriguing observation from 2017 was a red herring.
11/08/21 Physics Today Joanne Cohn and the email list that led to arXiv A strong sense of community led an early-career string theorist to share preprints in a scientifically competitive environment.
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.
09/16/16 The secret lives of long-lived particles A theoretical species of particle might answer nearly every question about our cosmos—if scientists can find it.
09/13/16 The hunt for the truest north Many theories predict the existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them.
09/09/16 A tale of two black holes What can the surprisingly huge mass of the black holes detected by LIGO tell us about dark matter and the early universe?
09/06/16 Turning on the cosmic microphone A new tool lets astronomers listen to the universe for the first time.
09/01/16 Universe steps on the gas A puzzling mismatch is forcing astronomers to re-think how well they understand the expansion of the universe.
08/30/16 Our galactic neighborhood What can our cosmic neighbors tell us about dark matter and the early universe?
08/26/16 Winners declared in SUSY bet Physicists exchanged cognac in Copenhagen at the conclusion of a bet about supersymmetry and the LHC.