11/04/14 Fabiola Gianotti chosen as next head of CERN The former head of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC will be the first female leader of Europe's largest particle physics laboratory.
10/30/14 Reading the heavens with your phone Two groups have released early versions of apps to turn your smart phone into a cosmic ray detector.
10/28/14 Scientists mull potential gamma-ray study sites An international panel is working to determine the two locations from which the Cherenkov Telescope Array will observe the gamma-ray sky.
10/27/14 TEDx goes to CERN Inventors, educators and scientists inspired audiences at this year’s TEDxCERN.
10/24/14 Cosmic inflation Cosmic inflation refers to a period of rapid, accelerated expansion that scientists think took place about 14 billion years ago.
10/23/14 Australia’s first dark matter experiment A proposed dark matter experiment would use two underground detectors, one in each hemisphere.
10/21/14 Costumes to make zombie Einstein proud These physics-themed Halloween costume ideas are sure to entertain—and maybe even educate. Terrifying, we know.
10/20/14 Transatlantic data-transfer gets a boost New links will improve the flow of data from the Large Hadron Collider to US institutions.
10/17/14 High schoolers try high-powered physics The winners of CERN's Beam Line for Schools competition conducted research at Europe’s largest physics laboratory.
10/15/14 Top quark still raising questions Why are scientists still interested in the heaviest fundamental particle nearly 20 years after its discovery?
10/14/14 Jokes for nerds Webcomic artist Zach Weinersmith fuels ‘Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’ with grad student humor and almost half of a physics degree.
10/13/14 Q&A: Katherine Freese The new director of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics talks neutrinos, women in science, and the hunt for dark matter.
10/10/14 ‘CERN People’ tells it like it is A new video series about scientists at CERN pulls back the curtain on what it’s like to be a physicist during a pivotal time in the field.
10/08/14 Science Hack Day Astrophysicists inspire space-related projects at a 24-hour hack-a-thon in San Francisco.