02/05/21 Science Postage stamp to honor female physicist who many say should have won the Nobel Prize On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the US Postal Service will issue a stamp commemorating Chien-Shiung Wu.
01/27/21 Science The cloak-and-dagger tale behind this year’s most anticipated result in particle physics The measures that g-2 experimenters are taking to ensure they don’t fool themselves into claiming a false discovery are the stuff of spy novels.
01/26/21 Snowmass summer study pushed to 2022 Organizers of the planning exercise that helps shape the future of US particle physics have moved its final workshop back by one year.
01/25/21 Quanta Physicists study how universes might bubble up and collide If our universe is a bubble that inflated inside a larger multiverse, it might bear scars from collisions with nearby bubbles.
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter 08/26/24 Lauren Biron New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.
02/24/15 Physics in fast-forward During their first run, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider rediscovered 50 years' worth of physics research in a single month.
02/23/15 Video: LHC experiments prep for restart Engineers and technicians have begun to close experiments in preparation for the next run.
02/19/15 Physics for the people Citizen scientists dive into particle physics and astrophysics research.
02/17/15 10 unusual detector materials The past century has generated some creative ideas for tracking particles.
02/12/15 Craft astrophysics Technicians on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey may be the last members of a spectroscopic survey to use hand-plugged fiber plates.
02/10/15 Physics Valentines In love? Or just the opposite? Express how you feel with physics-inspired Valentines—and anti-Valentines—courtesy of symmetry.
02/06/15 Q&A: Steven Molaro, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ The show’s executive producer explains how a niche particle physics blog wound up in a recent plot.