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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.

10/21/15

Real, levitating hoverboards do exist, thanks to quantum mechanics and the interplay between superconductors and magnetic fields.

10/20/15

These physics-themed jack-o’-lanterns come with extra brains.

10/15/15

Physicist Jennifer Gimmell shares her love of physics with her students.

10/14/15

Physicist Jim Pivarski explains ways to think about the expansion of space.

10/13/15

It’s in the air we breathe, but it’s not so easy to get ahold of 10 metric tons of xenon in its liquid form.

10/07/15

Finding a small discrepancy in measurements of the properties of neutrinos could show us how they fit into the bigger picture.

10/02/15

A new breed of experiments seeks sources of cosmic rays and other astrophysics phenomena.

09/30/15

Symmetry sits down with Lindsay Olson as she wraps up a year of creating art inspired by particle physics.