11/16/23 MIT Technology Review The biggest questions: Why is the universe so complex and beautiful? For some reason the universe is full of stars, galaxies, and life. But it didn’t have to be this way.
11/15/23 Scientific American The most shocking discovery in astrophysics is 25 years old A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it is.
11/09/23 CERN Courier The future is international Incoming director-general of KEK, Shoji Asai, describes the latest activities in Japan’s diverse high-energy physics program and how to build on the field’s successes in international collaboration.
Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning 05/07/24 Laura Dattaro Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it?
09/13/22 The value of a physics identity Being able to see themselves as physicists can make or break students’ ability to thrive in the field.
09/06/22 Majorana Demonstrator finds ‘tantalizing’ new purpose Scientists are using a detector originally designed to study neutrinos to pin down an elusive nuclear physics measurement.
08/30/22 Meet Quantum Kate The animated YouTube series Quantum Kate is a teenager’s guide to modern physics.
08/23/22 Accelerator operators: pillars of particle physics It takes years of on-the-job training to learn the ins and outs of particle accelerator operation.
08/16/22 Design thinking and the Disco-tracker As part of a class on design thinking, a graduate student turned her research topic into an art installation resembling a giant disco ball.
08/09/22 Four (more) things you might not know about antimatter It’s around you, it’s a part of you, and scientists are still trying to figure it out.
08/04/22 Why aren’t neutrinos adding up? Physicists take on the mystery of the missing (and extra) neutrinos.
08/02/22 6 views of working in particle physics without a PhD Symmetry chats with scientists and engineers about doing important work in physics without a doctoral degree.