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07/13/20

More than 3000 scientists gather online for Neutrino 2020

A dash of virtual reality helps replicate the serendipitous interactions of an in-person conference when participants are scattered across the globe.

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LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground.

LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter

08/26/24

Lauren Biron

New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.

02/27/14

CERN challenges students to design experiment

Groups of high school students from around the world are competing to win the chance to conduct a particle physics experiment at CERN.

02/25/14

Imagine the beam

A former physicist uses accelerator data to create artistic visualizations.

02/25/14

DECam pinpoints asteroid

When weather prevented other telescopes from tracking a potentially hazardous asteroid, the Dark Energy Camera stepped in.

02/20/14

Statistically significant

Michelangelo D’Agostino taps his physics ingenuity daily as a data scientist.

Photo of BaBar coil arrives in cargo plane

02/18/14

BaBar still breaking new ground

Twenty years after a cutting-edge particle physics experiment at SLAC adopted a royal elephant from a series of children’s books as its mascot, BaBar (the experiment, not the elephant) is still looking ahead to future discoveries.

Illustration of physicists to follow on Twitter

02/07/14

#FollowFriday IV: Physicists to follow on Twitter

In the final installment (for now) of #FollowFriday, symmetry highlights four more physicists on Twitter.

02/06/14

Virtual field trips take students into the labs

Teachers are using Google+ to bring their classes behind the scenes at national laboratories and to teach students about careers in STEM.

02/05/14

Couple's history intertwined with 60 years of CERN

A pair of scientists who have been at CERN since almost the very beginning still often find themselves in the laboratory’s cafeteria, arguing physics.

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