Archive

10/03/14

To catch a gravitational wave

Advanced LIGO, designed to detect gravitational waves, will eventually be 1000 times more powerful than its predecessor.

10/01/14

Daya Bay places new limit on sterile neutrinos

The Daya Bay experiment, famous for studying neutrino mixing, is branching into a new area of neutrino physics.

09/30/14

Accelerating the fight against cancer

As charged-particle therapies grow in popularity, physicists are working with other experts to make them smaller, cheaper and more effective—and more available to cancer patients in the United States.

09/29/14

Video: CERN 60

09/29/14

CERN turns 60

CERN celebrates six decades of peaceful collaboration for science.

09/26/14

Video: 60 years of CERN and Guinness World Records

09/26/14

CERN gets new Guinness World Records title

The global authority on superlatives celebrates a tiny particle found in a massive machine.

Illustration of Research Worlds: two buildings above ground, facility underground. People walking above ground

09/23/14

When research worlds collide

Particle physicists and scientists from other disciplines are finding ways to help one another answer critical questions.

09/22/14

Cosmic dust proves prevalent

Space dust accounts for at least some of the possible signal of cosmic inflation the BICEP2 experiment announced in March. How much remains to be seen.

09/18/14

Pursuit of dark matter progresses at AMS

A possible sign of dark matter will eventually become clear, according to promising signs from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment.

09/17/14

XKCD creator answers ‘What if?’

Randall Munroe, author of the webcomic xkcd, has found another outlet for his inquisitive nature.

Illustration of book, glasses, coffee, hands, pens, paper, and phone

09/16/14

Science gets social

If you like your science with a cup of coffee, a pint of beer or a raucous crowd, these events may be for you.

09/15/14

Sci-fi writers, scientists imagine the future

A new project pairs science fiction authors with scientists to envision worlds that are both inspiring and achievable.

Photo of South Pole Telescope southern lights

09/12/14

Astrophysics at the edge of the Earth

Conducting research at the South Pole takes a unique level of commitment.

09/11/14

What Hawking really meant

Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln explains the idea of a metastable universe, what it has to do with the Higgs boson, and why we're still in good shape.

Illustration of Brian Wecht and Ben Lillie

09/09/14

True tales of science

When two theoretical physicists crossed paths at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, the Story Collider was born.