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From the lab to the classroom

03/12/25

Chris Patrick

Most students who earn a PhD in physics build careers outside of research. Meet four physicists who went from particle physics research to teaching high school physics and math.

Images of the LHC under repair

09/25/23

Tending to a giant

In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak inside the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of a particle in the middle of a hall of mirrors

09/19/23

What is neutral naturalness?

Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of galaxies in a Petri dish

09/12/23

Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

A rapper performs on the Big Bang Stage

09/05/23

Rap with an undercurrent of particle physics

UK musician Consensus spins the big ideas of physics into rap and hip-hop tracks.

Bales of hay in an open field

08/29/23

Life along the future DUNE beamline

Unseen neutrinos, visible lives: A photographer journeys through the Midwest.

Illustration of the observatory next to people standing on stacks of books

08/22/23

Vera C. Rubin Observatory brings the universe to everyone

The Rubin Observatory is making education and outreach a top priority.

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08/15/23

Seeing the full picture with line-intensity mapping

Scientists are championing a relatively new technique as a method to understand the structure of the early universe in three dimensions.

Muon g-2 ring

08/10/23

Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory

Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment brings particle physics closer to a showdown between theory and experiment.

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