01/10/22 Scientific American ArXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server.
01/05/22 ScienceNews Antiprotons show no hint of unexpected matter-antimatter differences Protons and their antimatter counterparts mirror one another in a new ultra-precise measurement.
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.
Recognizing Rosemary Fowler 11/05/24 Pruthvi Mehta A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.
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.
07/26/16 The most important website in particle physics The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.
07/18/16 Pokémon Go shakes up the lab routine At Fermilab and CERN, students, lab employees and visitors alike are on the hunt for virtual creatures.
07/15/16 The science of proton packs Ghostbusters advisor James Maxwell explains the science of bustin'.
07/15/16 Who you gonna call? MIT physicists! As science advisors, physicists Lindley Winslow and Janet Conrad gave the Ghostbusters crew a taste of life in the lab.
07/12/16 A primer on particle accelerators What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?
07/05/16 Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere.
06/28/16 Preparing for their magnetic moment Scientists are using a plastic robot and hair-thin pieces of metal to ready a magnet that will hunt for new physics.