04/30/19 A common language Physics professor Jason Nordhaus is working to reduce barriers to STEM for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
04/23/19 Falsifiability and physics Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?
04/18/19 What gravitational waves can say about dark matter Scientists think that, under some circumstances, dark matter could generate powerful enough gravitational waves for equipment like LIGO to detect.
04/16/19 A collision of light One of the latest discoveries from the LHC takes the properties of photons beyond what your electrodynamics teacher will tell you in class.
04/11/19 LHCb results add clues to pentaquark mystery A re-examination of a particle discovered in 2015 has scientists debating its true identity.
04/10/19 Astronomers capture first image of a black hole The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.
04/09/19 All hands on deck Some theorists have taken to designing their own experiments to broaden the search for dark matter.
04/03/19 DESI lenses see first light The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will begin operation later this year.
04/02/19 Considering the whole student Meet three scientists connected by the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program.
03/28/19 Why LHC physics is like ‘Starcraft’ Video games and physics have more in common than you might think.
03/26/19 To PhD or not to PhD Respondents to Symmetry’s survey about what it’s like to earn a PhD in particle physics or astrophysics offer their views of the experience.
03/21/19 LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks A new observation by the LHCb experiment finds that charm quarks behave differently than their antiparticle counterparts.
03/19/19 ‘Entangle’ exhibit fuels imagination with physics A Swedish university tapped the founding director of CERN’s artist-in-residence program to curate a new art exhibit inspired by physics.