01/26/22 Quanta How the physics of resonance shapes reality The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.
01/24/22 NPR James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, a million miles away The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built, has reached its final destination in space.
01/20/22 Ars Technica Missing mass? Not on our watch—Dr. Paul Sutter explains dark matter Watch the pilot episode of the new series Edge of Knowledge.
01/19/22 EarSnacks Smaller than small: The discovery of quarks For World Quark Day, experimental physicist Dr. Martin Breidenbach takes Andrew & Polly on a trip through the ’70s into subatomic space to recount his use of a gigantic device to discover how small the universe can get.
Don’t call it toponium 04/01/25 Sarah Charley A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
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.
02/16/16 Test of DUNE tech begins On the road to the world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector, take the “DUNE Buggy.”
02/09/16 Neutrinos on a seesaw A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe.
02/04/16 Weighing the lightest particle Physicists are using one of the oldest laws of nature to find the mass of the elusive neutrino.