05/24/22
The CDF experiment at Fermilab measured the mass of the W boson and came up with an answer that no one expected.
05/17/22
Black physicists say efforts to recruit and retain more Black students must concentrate on challenges they face at both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Primarily White Institutions.
05/10/22
A pilot program, designed in part by educators at Sanford Underground Research Facility, is introducing computational thinking into elementary school curricula.
05/03/22
Neglected theories will wilt and wither but can bloom again with enough attention.
04/26/22
Scientists worried Higgs pairs would be too rare for LHC experiments to find. But by using machine learning, they now are getting tantalizingly close.
04/22/22
CERN’s accelerators and the LHC’s detectors have undergone major upgrades that will allow scientists to collect more data in the upcoming run than they did in the previous two runs combined.
04/19/22
Building international research communities is a cornerstone of Murayama’s physics career.
04/12/22
For the Muon g-2 experiment, researchers create billions of muons to study their surprising properties.
04/05/22
The catalysts for inspiration are hard work and innumerable connections with a wider scientific community.
03/29/22
Patty McBride was recently elected the next leader of an experiment at the LHC. But her proudest moments remain seeing her collaborators succeed.
03/22/22
Two projects in JWST’s first observation cycle will probe the nature of dark matter.
03/15/22
The career of Elaine McCluskey, who most recently served as project manager constructing the future facility for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, has had a lasting impact.
03/08/22
When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.
02/22/22
The Standard Model is one of the most well-tested theories in particle physics. But scientists are searching for new physics beyond it.
02/15/22
In particle physics, “annihilation” is a transformation.
02/08/22
National Medal of Science Recipient Sylvester James “Jim” Gates, Jr. has published multiple papers on theoretical physics with undergraduate and high school students.