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.
Recognizing Rosemary Fowler 11/05/24 Pruthvi Mehta A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.
06/10/15 LHC physicists preserve Native American voices Physicists are using LHC detector technology to retrieve Native American music from old recordings.
06/09/15 Japan’s next big neutrino project The proposed Hyper-K experiment would dwarf its predecessor.
06/05/15 Steady to a fault How do accelerators survive in some of the most earthquake-prone regions on Earth?
06/04/15 The universe at your fingertips Raw images from the DECam Legacy Survey’s new image archive will appear online the day after they are taken.
06/01/15 Inside particle detectors: magnets Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter.
05/29/15 Inside particle detectors: calorimeters Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter.
05/28/15 Inside particle detectors: trackers Physicist Jim Pivarski explains how particle detectors tell us about the smallest constituents of matter.
05/26/15 A goldmine of scientific research The underground home of the LUX dark matter experiment has a rich scientific history.