09/04/14 Forecasting the future Physicists and other scientists use the GEANT4 toolkit to identify problems before they occur.
09/03/14 Watching ‘the clock’ at the LHC As time ticks down to the restart of the Large Hadron Collider, scientists are making sure their detectors run like clockwork.
09/02/14 Detectors in daily life Not only are particle detectors essential to making discoveries in particle physics, they also play important roles in industry, science and medicine.
08/29/14 Massive neutrino experiment proposed in China China’s neutrino physics program could soon expand with a new experiment aimed at cracking a critical neutrino mystery.
08/28/14 Particle physics to aid nuclear cleanup Cosmic rays can help scientists do something no one else can: safely image the interior of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
08/27/14 First measurement of sun’s real-time energy The Borexino neutrino experiment in Italy found that the sun releases the same amount of energy today as it did 100,000 years ago.
08/26/14 Holographic universe experiment begins The Holometer experiment will test whether our universe is coded into 2-D packets many trillion times smaller than an atom.
08/21/14 LHC physicist takes on new type of collisions A former Large Hadron Collider researcher brings his knowledge of high-energy collisions to a new hockey game.
08/19/14 A whole-Earth approach Ecologist John Harte applies principles from his former life as a physicist to his work trying to save the planet.
08/18/14 Dark Energy Survey kicks off second season In September, DES will make data collected in its first season freely available to researchers.
08/15/14 LHC research, presented in tangible tidbits Students working on their PhDs at the Large Hadron Collider explain their research with snacks, board games and Legos.
08/12/14 Rare isotopes facility underway at Michigan State In July 140 truckloads of concrete arrived at Michigan State University to begin construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
08/11/14 New game trades clicks for physics discoveries A group of students at CERN have created a computer game that makes particle physics research as addictive as Candy Crush Saga.
08/08/14 Open access to the universe A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation—and now they're giving it away.