Archive

05/16/14

The search for dark matter at the LHC

When the Large Hadron Collider restarts, it will be an even more powerful dark-matter-hunting machine.

05/15/14

Long-distance neutrino search

For some physicists, remote operations centers bring neutrino experiments closer to home.

05/13/14

Building artificial body parts with particle beams

Companies are using an electron-beam 3-D printing process to manufacture medical implants.

05/12/14

Planck reveals galactic fingerprint

The Planck mission released a first glimpse of data that, later this year, will test BICEP2’s discovery of gravitational waves.

05/09/14

Science fiction or science fact?

In a new class at Duke University, professors from different realms explore the intersection of literature and physics.

05/08/14

Saving the Feynman van

A team of Richard Feynman’s friends and fans banded together to restore the Nobel laureate’s most famous vehicle.

05/07/14

The twin paradox

Fermilab physicist Don Lincoln explains a well-known thought experiment examining the consequences of special relativity.

05/06/14

NOvA’s first neutrino

The first picture of a neutrino that traveled from Illinois to Minnesota shows the NOvA experiment’s advantage in studying neutrino properties.

05/05/14

Scientists to map universe in 3-D HD

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will create the clearest three-dimensional map yet of one-third of the sky.

05/02/14

A tinkerer models a cosmic camera

An engineer at SLAC laboratory constructed a full-scale model of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope's cryostat in his spare time.

05/01/14

Keeping things awesome on the Dark Energy Survey

Scientists stay inspired in their sometimes tedious task of inspecting photographs taken in the Dark Energy Survey’s ambitious cataloging of one-eighth of the sky.

04/30/14

Possible expansion for South Pole detector

Physicists hope to seek out the source of cosmic neutrinos by expanding the IceCube neutrino detector to 10 times its current size.

04/29/14

The ‘Cosmos’ connection

Science is no longer the wallflower who doesn’t get asked to the dance, writes physicist Glen Crawford in an essay about science outreach past and present.

04/28/14

Meet the next director of TRIUMF

In July, Johns Hopkins University physicist Jonathan Bagger will begin a six-year term as director of TRIUMF laboratory in Vancouver.

04/25/14

Video: Study abroad

Photo of UM-CERN Research Abroad Program

04/25/14

Research abroad, CERN style

Students from US universities work on LHC experiments through a new research abroad program.