04/07/22 Science Astronomers find a new way to detect gravitational waves Gamma rays from distant pulsars could help researchers find merging supermassive black holes.
04/07/22 Quanta Newly measured particle seems heavy enough to break known physics A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
04/07/22 CERN LHCb reveals secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions The finding may help determine whether or not any antimatter seen by experiments in space originates from dark matter.
04/06/22 Berkeley Lab CUORE team places new limits on the bizarre behavior of neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature of the neutrino—and might be closer to answering a fundamental question about our own existence.
‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour 08/05/25 Sarah Charley A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.
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.
02/16/16 Test of DUNE tech begins On the road to the world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector, take the “DUNE Buggy.”