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.
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.
Physics beyond the imaginable 09/03/24 Sarah Charley The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.
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.
08/09/16 The contents of the universe How do scientists know what percentages of the universe are made up of dark matter and dark energy?
08/02/16 Q&A: The future of CERN CERN’s Director General is enthusiastic about the progress and prospects of the LHC research program, but it’s not the only thing on her plate.
07/28/16 The deconstructed Standard Model equation The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.
07/27/16 The Atomki anomaly A result from an experiment in Hungary catches the attention of a group of theorists in the United States.