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Muons: Emblems of discovery

01/13/26

Diana Kwon

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

10/19/23

New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies

The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter and the structure of our universe.

Illustration of Einstein shining a flashlight ahead of the "Spacetime Express" train

10/17/23

Spacetime: All the universe’s a stage

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.

10/10/23

CERN opens Science Gateway

About 1,400 people attended the grand opening of CERN’s new science education center.

Illustration of Galileo dropping antimatter off the Tower of Pisa

09/27/23

Antimatter falls down

Results from the ALPHA experiment confirm that matter and antimatter react to gravity in a similar way.

This artist’s rendering shows LuSEE-Night atop the Blue Ghost spacecraft scheduled to deliver the experiment to the far side of the moon.

09/26/23

Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon

LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.

09/25/23

Tending to a giant

In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak inside the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of a particle in the middle of a hall of mirrors

09/19/23

What is neutral naturalness?

Indirectly testing this theory, motivated by the mysterious mass of the Higgs boson, could be within reach for experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Illustration of galaxies in a Petri dish

09/12/23

Imagining the future of gravitational-wave research

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

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