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.
AI for control rooms 05/01/24 David Krause Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance with complex tasks.
06/13/17 Fermilab en espaƱol (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.
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.