01/26/22 Quanta How the physics of resonance shapes reality The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.
01/24/22 NPR James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, a million miles away The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built, has reached its final destination in space.
01/20/22 Ars Technica Missing mass? Not on our watch—Dr. Paul Sutter explains dark matter Watch the pilot episode of the new series Edge of Knowledge.
01/19/22 EarSnacks Smaller than small: The discovery of quarks For World Quark Day, experimental physicist Dr. Martin Breidenbach takes Andrew & Polly on a trip through the ’70s into subatomic space to recount his use of a gigantic device to discover how small the universe can get.
Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino 10/29/24 Chris Patrick Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.
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?