10/28/21 Quanta Is the great neutrino puzzle pointing to multiple missing particles? Years of conflicting neutrino measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles.
10/27/21 MicroBooNE experiment’s first results show no hint of a sterile neutrino Four complementary analyses by Fermilab’s MicroBooNE show no signs of a theorized fourth kind of neutrino.
10/27/21 ScienceNews Doubt cast on theorized ‘sterile’ particles leaves a neutrino mystery unsolved A highly reclusive variety of the lightweight subatomic particles seems less likely.
10/26/21 BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflation A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation.
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.
02/10/17 Physics love poem challenge Think you can do better than the Symmetry staff? Send us your poems!
02/07/17 What ended the dark ages of the universe? New experiments will help astronomers uncover the sources that helped make the universe transparent.
02/02/17 Road trip science The Escaramujo Project delivered detector technology by van to eight universities in Latin America.
01/24/17 Five extreme facts about neutron stars Neutron stars have earned their share of superlatives since their discovery in 1967.
01/17/17 The value of basic research How can we measure the worth of scientific knowledge? Economic analysts give it a shot.
01/13/17 STOMP visits CERN A group known for making music with everyday objects recently got their hands on some extraordinary props.
01/12/17 Twinkle, twinkle, little supernova Using Twinkles, the new simulation of images of our night sky, scientists get ready for a gigantic cosmological survey unlike any before.