01/13/22 Wired Astrophysicists release the biggest map of the universe yet A powerful astronomy instrument called DESI charts millions of galaxies in the night sky. Can it help scientists finally figure out what dark energy is?
01/10/22 Scientific American ArXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server.
01/05/22 ScienceNews Antiprotons show no hint of unexpected matter-antimatter differences Protons and their antimatter counterparts mirror one another in a new ultra-precise measurement.
12/13/21 Quanta Cosmologists parry attacks on the vaunted cosmological principle A central pillar of cosmology—the universe is the same everywhere and in all directions—is surviving a storm of possible evidence against it.
Explain it in 60 seconds: High-Luminosity LHC 02/26/25 Sarah Charley The upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider will allow scientists to better study known phenomena and to search for new ones.
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.
03/08/16 Art of Darkness The Dark Energy Survey’s art show offers a glimpse of the expanding universe.
03/01/16 The hidden neutrino The explanation for some strange experimental results could lie in undiscovered particles called sterile neutrinos.
02/23/16 The ABCs of particle physics Take an interactive animated journey through the particle physics alphabet.
02/18/16 Casting a net for neutrinos The KM3NeT experiment will catch the elusive particles using the Mediterranean Sea.