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.
Don’t call it toponium 04/01/25 Sarah Charley A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
01/22/15 DECam’s nearby discoveries The Dark Energy Camera does more than its name would lead you to believe.
01/20/15 How to build your own particle detector Make a cloud chamber and watch fundamental particles zip through your living room!
01/13/15 Dark horse of the dark matter hunt Dark matter might be made up of a type of particle not many scientists are looking for: the axion.
01/12/15 Mirror, mirror After more than six years of grinding and polishing, the first-ever dual-surface mirror for a major telescope is complete.
01/08/15 Transition edge sensors An update to technology more than a century old might be key to making the next big discovery in particle physics.
01/07/15 Shh! DEAP is hunting dark matter How far will scientists go to cut through the noise in search of a subtle signal?
12/18/14 Physicist turned carbon-catcher Particle physics inspires Arizona State University professor Klaus Lackner's work on climate change.
12/16/14 Deck the halls with Nobel physicists Symmetry presents a physics twist on the craft of cutting paper snowflakes.