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04/05/19
Fermilab

The experiment measured neutrino interactions with polystyrene, carbon, iron, lead, water and helium.

04/04/19
Popular Mechanics

A group of astronomers has ruled out a hypothesis that dark matter might be made of tiny black holes created at the beginning of the universe.

04/03/19
Nature

A quirk in how Global Positioning System signals are time-stamped risks messing up devices’ data from 6 April.

04/03/19
Wired

The seeming lack of dark matter in two newly discovered galaxies is, ironically, strong evidence that it exists.

Considering the whole student

04/02/19

Meet three scientists connected by the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program.

03/28/19

Why LHC physics is like ‘Starcraft’

Video games and physics have more in common than you might think.

03/26/19

To PhD or not to PhD

Respondents to Symmetry’s survey about what it’s like to earn a PhD in particle physics or astrophysics offer their views of the experience.

03/19/19

‘Entangle’ exhibit fuels imagination with physics

A Swedish university tapped the founding director of CERN’s artist-in-residence program to curate a new art exhibit inspired by physics.

03/14/19

The potential of plasma wakefield acceleration

Scientists around the world are testing ways to further boost the power of particle accelerators while drastically shrinking their size.

03/12/19

Decolonizing science through sci comm

Science writer Sibusiso Biyela aims to bring science back to South Africa’s Zulu communities.

03/05/19

A tiny new experiment at the LHC

The story of the latest experiment approved for installation at the Large Hadron Collider starts with a theorist and a question about dark matter.

02/26/19

10 words that mean something different to physicists

Some of this science sounds awfully familiar.

02/22/19

The bubble chamber sand mandala

One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier.