05/17/21 Berkeley Lab Successful start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) follows record-setting trial run The international collaboration aims to create a 3D map of the universe.
05/15/21 Discover A telescope on the moon could illuminate the dark ages of the universe A radio telescope planned for the farside of the moon could plug a 500-million-year hole in cosmic history.
05/13/21 Gizmodo If we live in a sea of dark matter, this tiny mirror might be able to detect it A team of researchers has suggested a design for a new dark matter experiment, one that relies on a super-thin mirror and would aim to detect something called dark photons.
05/13/21 Discover Have astrophysicists finally discovered primordial black holes? Astronomers think some black holes must have formed soon after the Big Bang.
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement 09/24/24 Regina Demina and Kathryn Jepsen The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?
08/20/15 Q&A: Marcelle Soares-Santos Scientist Marcelle Soares-Santos talks about Brazil, neutron stars and a love of discovery.
08/12/15 Q&A: Underground machinist What’s it like being the machinist at the deepest machine shop in the world?
08/11/15 Testing the nature of neutrinos The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is looking for a sign that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.
08/05/15 The mystery of particle generations Why are there three almost identical copies of each particle of matter?
07/30/15 One Higgs is the loneliest number Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson in 2012. Now they’re looking for more.
07/28/15 Is this the only universe? Our universe could be just one small piece of a bubbling multiverse.