06/02/16 What is a “particle”? Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?
05/26/16 Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.
05/19/16 The Planck scale The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.
05/12/16 Where does mass come from? The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.
05/09/16 LHC prepares to deliver six times the data Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider are once again recording collisions at extraordinary energies.
05/05/16 Following LIGO’s treasure maps Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.
05/03/16 EXO-200 resumes its underground quest The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles.
04/28/16 A GUT feeling about physics Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.
04/22/16 LHC data at your fingertips The CMS collaboration has released 300 terabytes of research data.
04/19/16 Eight things you might not know about light Light is all around us, but how much do you really know about the photons speeding past you?
04/14/16 Five fascinating facts about DUNE One: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will look for more than just neutrinos.