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‘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.

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.

02/02/16

This radioactive life

Radiation is everywhere. The question is: How much?

01/28/16

A mile-deep campus

Forget wide-open spaces—this campus is in a former gold mine.

Illustration of black and pink mountains with smoke over lake with mirror reflection

01/26/16

Our imperfect vacuum

The emptiest parts of the universe aren’t so empty after all.

Illustration of neutrino symbols both solid and line art connected in grid pattern

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.

01/12/16

Black holes

Let yourself be pulled into the weird world of black holes.

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