09/17/21 Nature New type of dark energy could solve universe expansion mystery Hints of a previously unknown, primordial form of the substance could explain why the cosmos now seems to be expanding faster than theory predicts.
09/14/21 Scientific American Weird muons may point to new particles and forces of nature A mismatch between theory and experiment could explain big physics mysteries.
09/13/21 Wired UK This is how you build a telescope to hunt for dark energy The Euclid telescope will soon start work studying two billion galaxies.
08/26/21 Gizmodo New dark-matter detector records unexplained high-frequency signals A quartz acoustic-wave resonator in Australia has made its first intriguing detections.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD 07/25/24 Sarah Charley Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
05/26/16 Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.
05/19/16 The Planck scale The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.
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.