05/21/13 Face of Fermilab Former biology teacher Felicia Svoboda shows Fermilab visitors the ins and outs of doing science.
05/16/13 Moniz confirmed as Energy Secretary The US Senate has unanimously confirmed MIT physics professor Ernest Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy.
05/14/13 The cherry pie collider What’s the next step in particle colliders? Symmetry takes a trip into the kitchen pantry to find out.
05/12/13 The top 40 physics hits of 2012 The Higgs boson is a popular subject among the most-cited physics papers of 2012, but a particle simulation manual takes the top spot.
05/10/13 Symmetry challenge: Neutrino oscillation analogy Symmetry is on the hunt for the best analogy to describe neutrino oscillation, the process by which a neutrino changes from one flavor to the next.
05/08/13 The Fellowship of the Ring The Muon g-2 experiment kicks off this summer with the move of a 50-foot-wide ring-shaped cryostat from New York to Illinois.
05/07/13 A knack for exploring With a solid grounding in physics, Thomas Humphrey shares the fun of discovery at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.
05/07/13 Smallest lab-made drop of liquid might cause strange particle behavior A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious ‘ridge effect.’
05/02/13 Dark-matter detector hears first particle pops The COUPP-60 dark-matter experiment begins recording the trails of bubbles that passing particles form in its detector.
04/30/13 Free from the start Since CERN released the World Wide Web without royalties 20 years ago, the technology has flourished.
04/30/13 Matter, antimatter, we all fall down—right? Scientists perform the first direct investigation into how antimatter interacts with gravity.
04/29/13 Dark Energy Survey launches new photo blog Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey share weekly photos taken by and of the world’s most powerful digital camera.
04/26/13 SLAC’s historic ‘End Station A’ hosts electron beams again A new facility opens for experiments in SLAC’s historic End Station A, where the first evidence for quarks was discovered.
04/24/13 Strange beauty particle decays boost matter Physicists from the LHCb collaboration observe CP violation in the decay of a particle made of beauty and strange quarks.
04/23/13 Icy experiment catches record-energy neutrinos The IceCube experiment makes what could be an important step toward using neutrinos to find the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.