11/07/21 NPR He always wanted a PhD in physics. He finally earned it at 89 Manfred Steiner had a successful and productive career as a doctor. But all along, he had a nagging feeling he should be doing something else: studying physics.
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.
Recognizing Rosemary Fowler 11/05/24 Pruthvi Mehta A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.
04/12/16 Art draws out the beauty of physics Labs around the world open their doors to aesthetic creation.
04/01/16 Belle II and the matter of antimatter Go inside the new detector looking for why we’re here.
03/29/16 The Milky Way’s hot spot The center of our galaxy is a busy place. But it might be one of the best sites to hunt for dark matter.
03/24/16 The next big LHC upgrade? Software. Compatible and sustainable software could revolutionize high-energy physics research.
03/22/16 Why are particle accelerators so large? CERN physicist Edda Gschwendtner explains why we need big machines to study tiny particles.
03/16/16 Dusting for the fingerprint of inflation with BICEP3 A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off.
03/15/16 A new pair of lenses for the Mayall Scientists hope the quarter-ton hunks of glass will help them see dark energy’s effects.