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07/28/21

Changing a name without forfeiting credit

A group of US national laboratories, publishers, journals and other organizations is making it easier for researchers to update their names on past publications.

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The boson that physics almost rejected

07/02/24

Claire Malone

Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name.

05/24/16

Of bison and bosons

What are all of the symbols in Fermilab’s unofficial seal?

05/19/16

The Planck scale

The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.

05/17/16

Why do objects feel solid?

The way you think about atoms may not be quite right.

05/12/16

Where does mass come from?

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.

05/05/16

Following LIGO’s treasure maps

Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.

04/28/16

A GUT feeling about physics

Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.

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04/26/16

The hottest job in physics?

Accelerator scientists are in demand at labs and beyond.

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04/19/16

Eight things you might not know about light

Light is all around us, but how much do you really know about the photons speeding past you?

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