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‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

Green piece of an accelerator machinery and a plate of fruit on a lit table

04/03/17

Art imitates physics

Artist Chris Henschke’s latest piece inspired by particle physics mixes constancy with unpredictability, the natural with the synthetic.

Black and white collage background with equations, circular collage images of different scientific machines on top

03/28/17

How to make a discovery

Particle physics is a dance between theory and experiment.

Close-up of a person wearing a cleanroom mask and a helmet with a light next to colorful cables.

03/24/17

A new gem inside the CMS detector

This month scientists embedded sophisticated new instruments in the heart of a Large Hadron Collider experiment.

Illustration of Hernán Quintana Godoy meeting people and a classroom

03/21/17

High-energy visionary

Meet Hernán Quintana Godoy, a scientist who helped make Chile central to international astronomy.

Image of the gamma-ray glow in Andromeda captured by the Fermi satellite

03/17/17

Q&A: Dark matter next door?

Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.

03/14/17

The life of an accelerator

As it evolves, the SLAC linear accelerator illustrates some important technologies from the history of accelerator science.

particle hitting a carnival strength test with mallet, sign "test your strength!"

03/10/17

A strength test for the strong force

New research could tell us about particle interactions in the early universe and even hint at new physics.

Illustration of transportation of 70,000 tons of liquid argon nearly a mile underground

03/07/17

Researchers face engineering puzzle

How do you transport 70,000 tons of liquid argon nearly a mile underground?

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