11/04/21 New York Times A new 10-year plan for the cosmos On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope to search for life and habitable worlds beyond Earth.
11/04/21 Scientific American Can sterile neutrinos exist? Physicists have wondered if neutrino particles come in a mysterious fourth variety. Now new experimental findings complicate the question.
10/28/21 Quanta Is the great neutrino puzzle pointing to multiple missing particles? Years of conflicting neutrino measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles.
10/27/21 MicroBooNE experiment’s first results show no hint of a sterile neutrino Four complementary analyses by Fermilab’s MicroBooNE show no signs of a theorized fourth kind of neutrino.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement 09/24/24 Regina Demina and Kathryn Jepsen The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?
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.
06/23/16 The Higgs-shaped elephant in the room Higgs bosons should mass-produce bottom quarks. So why is it so hard to see it happening?
06/21/16 All four one and one for all A theory of everything would unite the four forces of nature, but is such a thing possible?
06/14/16 The neutrino turns 60 Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.
06/07/16 The neutrino cocktail Neutrinos are a puzzling mixture of three flavors and three masses. Scientists want to measure them down to the last drop.
06/02/16 What is a “particle”? Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?