10/27/21 ScienceNews Doubt cast on theorized ‘sterile’ particles leaves a neutrino mystery unsolved A highly reclusive variety of the lightweight subatomic particles seems less likely.
10/26/21 BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflation A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.
10/19/21 Quanta A hint of dark matter sends physicists looking to the skies After a search of neutron stars finds preliminary evidence for hypothetical dark matter particles called axions, astrophysicists are devising new ways to spot them.
10/18/21 CERN The four LHC experiments are getting ready for pilot beams After over two years of upgrades and maintenance, the four main LHC experiments are finalizing preparations to receive pilot beams.
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?
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.