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.
12/13/21 The Washington Post Discovering Dr. Wu The world reveres Chien-Shiung Wu as a groundbreaking nuclear physicist who made a startling find 65 years ago. But to me, she was Grandma.
12/12/21 Popular Science Physicists close in on the exceedingly short life of the Higgs boson Just because scientists have discovered a particle doesn't mean they know all its properties.
A collaborative ecosystem 04/23/24 Emily Ayshford Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.
06/06/17 A tale of three cities An enormous neutrino detector named ICARUS unites physics labs in Italy, Switzerland and the US.
05/30/17 A brief etymology of particle physics How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?
05/26/17 First results from search for a dark light The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
05/16/17 The facts and nothing but the facts At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.
05/09/17 Understanding the unknown universe The authors of We Have No Idea remind us that there are still many unsolved mysteries in science.
05/04/17 Sterile neutrino search hits roadblock at reactors A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.
04/27/17 Did you see it? Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
04/25/17 Archaeology meets particle physics Undergraduates search for hidden tombs in Turkey using cosmic-ray muons.