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.
12/12/21 Popular Science Physicists close in on the exceedingly short life of the Higgs boson Just because scientists have discovered a particle doesn't mean they know all its properties.
12/08/21 Fermilab News DUNE collaboration starts production of components for its gigantic neutrino detector
US physicists prioritize closer study of the Higgs 10/08/24 Kimberly Hickok Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.
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.
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.