05/20/21 Fermilab ICARUS gets ready to fly The ICARUS detector, part of Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, will officially start its hunt for elusive sterile neutrinos this fall.
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.
Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino 10/29/24 Chris Patrick Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.
07/07/15 What is dark energy? It’s everywhere. It will determine the fate of our universe. And we still have no idea what it is.
07/02/15 The wonderful thing about triggers Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors know when to record data.
06/30/15 How do you solve a puzzle like neutrinos? When it comes to studying particles that zip through matter as though it weren’t even there, you use every method you can think of.
06/25/15 Exploring dark energy with robots The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will produce a 3-D space map using a ‘hive’ of robots.
06/23/15 Bringing neutrino research back to India The India-based Neutrino Observatory will provide a home base for Indian particle physicists.
06/18/15 Mathematician to know: Emmy Noether Noether's theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science.
06/11/15 Q&A: New director-general of KEK Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.
06/10/15 LHC physicists preserve Native American voices Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings.