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.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD 07/25/24 Sarah Charley Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
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.
08/19/16 The $100 muon detector A doctoral student and his adviser designed a tabletop particle detector they hope to make accessible to budding young engineering physicists.
08/16/16 The physics photographer Fermilab’s house photographer of almost 30 years, Reidar Hahn, shares four of his most iconic shots.