11/16/21
Heymans, the first woman to be appointed to the role, hopes to give kids and others the chance to appreciate the stars.
11/09/21
Just over 40 years ago, a new theory about the early universe provided a way to tackle multiple cosmological conundrums at once.
11/02/21
Students in the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program hope to use skills they developed at Fermilab to benefit Indigenous communities.
10/19/21
There’s no one best way to build a telescope.
10/12/21
The answer has to do with dark matter’s role in shaping the cosmos.
10/05/21
New accelerator magnets are undergoing a rigorous training program to prepare them for the extreme conditions inside the upgraded Large Hadron Collider.
09/28/21
Over time, particle physics and astrophysics and computing have built upon one another’s successes. That coevolution continues today.
09/21/21
Accommodations necessitated by the global pandemic made participation in academic conferences easier for physicists with and without disabilities.
09/14/21
The Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science helps students and professionals find community.
09/07/21
Even experiments that aren’t looking for dark matter directly could give us hints about the mysterious substance that permeates our universe.
08/31/21
A CERN photographer and videographer writes about his experiences documenting the ongoing upgrade that will turn the Large Hadron Collider into the High-Luminosity LHC.
08/26/21
Scientists hoping to find new, long-lived particles at the Large Hadron Collider recently realized they may already have the detector to do it.
08/24/21
The ATLAS experiment at CERN sees possible evidence of quark-gluon plasma production during collisions between photons and heavy nuclei inside the Large Hadron Collider.
08/17/21
Back when it was theorized, scientists weren’t sure they would ever detect the neutrino; now they’re searching for a version of the particle that could be even more elusive.
08/10/21
For the first time, African physicists and other researchers are creating a grassroots strategy for the future of physics research and education.
08/03/21
A group of scientists is hoping to detect dark matter using a nano-scale drum.