01/26/22 Quanta How the physics of resonance shapes reality The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles.
01/24/22 NPR James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, a million miles away The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built, has reached its final destination in space.
01/20/22 Ars Technica Missing mass? Not on our watch—Dr. Paul Sutter explains dark matter Watch the pilot episode of the new series Edge of Knowledge.
01/19/22 EarSnacks Smaller than small: The discovery of quarks For World Quark Day, experimental physicist Dr. Martin Breidenbach takes Andrew & Polly on a trip through the ’70s into subatomic space to recount his use of a gigantic device to discover how small the universe can get.
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.
07/18/17 Shaking the dark matter paradigm A theory about gravity challenges our understanding of the universe.
07/13/17 SLAC accelerator plans appear in Smithsonian art exhibit The late artist June Schwarcz found inspiration in some unusual wrapping paper her husband brought home from the lab.
07/11/17 A new model for standards In an upcoming refresh, particle physics will define units of measurement such as the meter, the kilogram and the second.
07/03/17 When was the Higgs actually discovered? The announcement on July 4 was just one part of the story. Take a peek behind the scenes of the discovery of the Higgs boson.
06/30/17 What’s really happening during an LHC collision? It’s less of a collision and more of a symphony.
06/27/17 The rise of LIGO’s space-studying super-team The era of multi-messenger astronomy promises rich rewards—and a steep learning curve.
06/23/17 Howie Day records love song to physics After the musician learned that grad students at CERN had created a parody of his 2004 single “Collide,” he flew to Switzerland to sing it at the LHC.