11/04/21 New York Times A new 10-year plan for the cosmos On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope to search for life and habitable worlds beyond Earth.
11/04/21 Scientific American Can sterile neutrinos exist? Physicists have wondered if neutrino particles come in a mysterious fourth variety. Now new experimental findings complicate the question.
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.
Machine learning and experiment 04/25/24 Sarah Charley For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater complexity.
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.