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.
Explain it in 60 seconds: High-Luminosity LHC 02/26/25 Sarah Charley The upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider will allow scientists to better study known phenomena and to search for new ones.
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.
02/05/15 Scientists take to YouTube for #mylinearcollider A video campaign shows international support for construction of the International Linear Collider.
02/03/15 Tracking glaciers with accelerators To predict Earth’s future, geologists use particle accelerators to understand its past.