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.
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.
04/16/15 Seeing the CMS experiment with new eyes The wonders of particle physics serve as a springboard for a community-building arts initiative at Fermilab.
04/09/15 Seeing dark matter without seeing Indirect detection experiments might be the key to discovering invisible dark matter.
03/11/15 Buying into physics A scientist sets out to augment particle physics funding through crowdfunding.
03/05/15 A second chance at a PhD in physics At each step on the path to a physics PhD, the percentage of students from underrepresented groups drops. The APS Bridge Program aims to fix that.
03/03/15 A telescope that tells you when to look up The LSST system will alert scientists to changes in space in near-real time.