05/04/20
The group Science Responds harnesses physicists’ expertise in fields like data science, statistics and software development to support efforts to respond to COVID-19.
04/30/20
Scientists study rare, one-in-a-trillion heavy boson collisions happening inside the LHC.
04/28/20
Supernova 1987A, the closest supernova observed with modern technology, excited the world more than 30 years ago—and it remains an intriguing subject of study even today.
04/21/20
Amy Catanzano bridges the worlds of poetry and science.
04/14/20
In an imaginative short film, Symmetry writer Sarah Charley investigates the physics of vegetables.
04/07/20
The ADMX experiment trains scientists to deal with real signals—by creating fake ones.
03/30/20
How do you measure a decade of LHC research?
03/24/20
Only 1% of the mass of the proton comes from the Higgs field. ALICE scientists examine a process that could help explain the rest.
03/10/20
Only a fraction of collision events that look like they produce a Higgs boson actually produce a Higgs boson. Luckily, it doesn’t matter.
02/27/20
An extremely fast new detector inside the CMS detector will allow physicists to get a sharper image of particle collisions.
02/25/20
Symmetry chats with scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider to hear about differences between seven different rungs on the academic career ladder.
02/18/20
Reina Reyes made headlines for her research at Princeton testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity; now she’s home in the Philippines, using her physics background to make her mark in different ways.
02/13/20
A school invited physicists from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to present their science for judgment by elementary students.
02/11/20
Although scientists have yet to find the spooky stuff, they aren’t completely in the dark.
02/04/20
Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it.
01/28/20
When observed parameters seem like they must be finely tuned to fit a theory, some physicists accept it as coincidence. Others want to keep digging.
