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Physics vocabulary: AI edition

04/18/24

Emily Ayshford, Kim Hickok, Chris Patrick

Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? Symmetry is here to help.

06/28/22

Are you a Higgs expert? Take this quiz to find out!

July 4 marks the 10^th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson.

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06/23/22

Particle Fever: Where are they now?

The 2013 documentary Particle Fever follows physicists from the start-up of the LHC through the discovery of the Higgs boson. Where are those physicists now?

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06/21/22

Reverberations of the Higgs

The discovery of the Higgs boson inspired young people around the world to pursue a career in science and technology.

06/14/22

Connecting with physics

Professors find ways to show students that physics is more than just a set of laws and equations.

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06/07/22

From science lab to Cyr wheel

Meet a physicist who ran away to join the circus.

Artwork by Luca Buvoli "Time does not exist"

05/31/22

Luca Buvoli’s art explores COVID spacetime

In a recent exhibit, the artist wove fantasy and physics to illustrate the temporal funk of living through a pandemic.

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05/24/22

What’s up with the W boson mass?

The CDF experiment at Fermilab measured the mass of the W boson and came up with an answer that no one expected.

Illustration of a Black woman student considering physics concepts

05/17/22

The other physics problem

Black physicists say efforts to recruit and retain more Black students must concentrate on challenges they face at both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Primarily White Institutions.

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