07/15/16 Who you gonna call? MIT physicists! As science advisors, physicists Lindley Winslow and Janet Conrad gave the Ghostbusters crew a taste of life in the lab.
07/12/16 A primer on particle accelerators What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?
07/06/16 Scientists salvage insights from lost satellite Before Hitomi died, it sent X-ray data that could explain why galaxy clusters form far fewer stars than expected.
07/05/16 Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere.
06/29/16 LHCb discovers family of tetraquarks Researchers found four new particles made of the same four building blocks.
06/28/16 Preparing for their magnetic moment Scientists are using a plastic robot and hair-thin pieces of metal to ready a magnet that will hunt for new physics.
06/23/16 The Higgs-shaped elephant in the room Higgs bosons should mass-produce bottom quarks. So why is it so hard to see it happening?
06/21/16 All four one and one for all A theory of everything would unite the four forces of nature, but is such a thing possible?
06/15/16 Second gravitational wave detection announced For a second time, scientists from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations saw gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes.
06/14/16 The neutrino turns 60 Project Poltergeist led to the discovery of the ghostly particle. Sixty years later, scientists are confronted with more neutrino mysteries than ever before.
06/13/16 CERN grants beam time to students Contest winners will study special relativity and an Egyptian pyramid using a CERN beamline.
06/07/16 The neutrino cocktail Neutrinos are a puzzling mixture of three flavors and three masses. Scientists want to measure them down to the last drop.