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.
01/23/20
Science Storytellers brings together two groups of innately curious individuals: scientists and children.
01/21/20
As technology improves, scientists discover new ways to search for theorized dark matter particles called axions.
01/16/20
The first undergraduate on the Event Horizon Telescope to receive junior collaborator status thrives in the unknown.
01/14/20
To both understand the universe and improve equity, inclusion and diversity in physics, Brian Beckford looks to one word: respect.
