11/07/21 NPR He always wanted a PhD in physics. He finally earned it at 89 Manfred Steiner had a successful and productive career as a doctor. But all along, he had a nagging feeling he should be doing something else: studying physics.
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.
A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence 05/06/24 Laura Dattaro Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of the same universe.
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.
01/06/17 CERN ramps up neutrino program The research center aims to test two large prototype detectors for the DUNE experiment.
01/05/17 Anything to declare? Sometimes being a physicist means giving detector parts the window seat.