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.
Testing, testing! 01/15/25 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just successfully completed a series of full-system tests using an engineering test camera.
05/19/15 Looking to the heavens for neutrino masses Scientists are using studies of the skies to solve a neutrino mystery.
05/14/15 The accelerator in the Louvre The Accélérateur Grand Louvre d’analyse élémentaire solves ancient mysteries with powerful particle beams.
05/12/15 High adventure physics Three groups of hardy scientists recently met up in Antarctica to launch experiments into the big blue via balloon.
05/08/15 Lonely chairs at CERN Over the past year, the “Lonely Chairs at CERN” photography blog has let the chairs do the talking.
04/30/15 DECam’s far-out forays The Dark Energy Camera does even more than its name would lead you to believe.
04/29/15 Natural SUSY’s last stand Either Supersymmetry will be found in the next years of research at the Large Hadron Collider, or it isn’t exactly what theorists hoped it was.
04/28/15 Ten things you might not know about antimatter Antimatter has fueled many a supernatural tale. It's also fascinating all by itself.
04/23/15 Extreme cold and shipwreck lead Scientists have proven the concept of the CUORE experiment, which will study neutrinos with the world’s coldest detector and ancient lead.