01/13/22 Wired Astrophysicists release the biggest map of the universe yet A powerful astronomy instrument called DESI charts millions of galaxies in the night sky. Can it help scientists finally figure out what dark energy is?
01/10/22 Scientific American ArXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server.
01/05/22 ScienceNews Antiprotons show no hint of unexpected matter-antimatter differences Protons and their antimatter counterparts mirror one another in a new ultra-precise measurement.
12/13/21 Quanta Cosmologists parry attacks on the vaunted cosmological principle A central pillar of cosmology—the universe is the same everywhere and in all directions—is surviving a storm of possible evidence against it.
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.
06/22/17 African School works to develop local expertise Universities in Africa are teaming up to offer free training to students interested in fundamental physics.
06/20/17 A speed trap for dark matter, revisited A NASA rocket experiment could use the Doppler effect to look for signs of dark matter in mysterious X-ray emissions from space.
06/13/17 Fermilab en español (ES) El laboratorio de física de partículas establece una conexión en español.
06/12/17 How to clean inside the LHC The beam pipes of the LHC need to be so clean, even air molecules count as dirt.
06/08/17 Another year wiser In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.
06/06/17 A tale of three cities An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the US.