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.
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.
01/20/16 Is the neutrino its own antiparticle? The mysterious particle could hold the key to why matter won out over antimatter in the early universe.
01/14/16 Exploring the dark universe with supercomputers Next-generation telescopic surveys will work hand-in-hand with supercomputers to study the nature of dark energy.
01/07/16 How to wrangle a particle Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.
01/05/16 The booming science of dwarf galaxies A recent uptick in the discovery of the smallest, oldest galaxies benefits studies of dark matter, galaxy formation and the evolution of the universe.