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Recognizing Rosemary Fowler

11/05/24

Pruthvi Mehta

A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.

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?

Architect working on draft board "the house of everything"

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?

Row of red and pink candles with pink background

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.

Four part graphic of man with hammer cracking open spheres, moves on to next, then taps third, which says "thunk"

06/02/16

What is a “particle”?

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

05/31/16

1,000 meters below

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

Group of four singers playing guitar singing "we are stardust" with low-mass particle above

05/26/16

Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom

Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.

05/24/16

Of bison and bosons

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

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