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01/14/21
Fermilab

Dark Energy Survey makes public catalog of nearly 700 million astronomical objects

The second data release from the Dark Energy Survey is the culmination of over a half-decade of astronomical data collection and analysis.

01/11/21
The Guardian

Jack Steinberger obituary

The Nobel Laureate's work played a significant role in the development of modern particle physics theory.

01/08/21
The Washington Post

Martinus Veltman, Nobel laureate who helped reveal workings of universe, dies at 89

Veltman made his most significant contribution in helping clear away mathematical roadblocks to the full flowering of the Standard Model.

12/17/20
Quanta

Astronomers get their wish, and a cosmic crisis gets worse

We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should. New ultra-precise distance measurements have only intensified the problem.

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ATLAS releases ‘full orchestra’ of analysis instruments

01/14/21
By Stephanie Melchor

The ATLAS collaboration has begun to publish likelihood functions, information that will allow researchers to better understand and use their experiment’s data in future analyses.

Illustration of Higgs Boson "milk cartons" with SUSY designated as missing
01/12/21

The status of supersymmetry

Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet.

Illustration of someone learning how to teach and then teaching physics to high school students
01/05/21

High school teachers, meet particle physics

Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms.

LHCb
12/17/20

LHCb finds more matter-antimatter weirdness in B mesons

Matter and antimatter particles can behave differently, but where these differences show up (and where they don’t) is still a puzzle.

Illustration of a woman looking through binoculars with black holes as lenses
12/15/20

Physics at tiniest scale could explain ‘impossible’ black holes

Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them.

ALICE experiment
12/10/20

Simulating subatomic physics on a quantum computer

Scientists show how quantum computing could be a game-changer in our understanding of quantum processes.

Illustration of books floating in space
12/08/20

Physics books of 2020

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s favorite physics books of 2020 cover an impressive span of time: from the very beginning of our universe until the very end.

CMS event display
12/01/20

Heavy boson triplets test Standard Model

A recent observation of an extremely rare subatomic process allows scientists to test the Standard Model’s boundaries.

Illustration of a sea of scientific data
11/17/20

Six questions physicists ask when evaluating scientific claims

Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real?

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