03/26/13 OPERA snags third tau neutrino For the third time since the OPERA detector began receiving beam in 2006, the experiment has caught a muon neutrino oscillating into a tau neutrino.
03/26/13 How particle physics improves your life From MRIs to shrink wrap, particle physics technology improves the world we live in.
03/26/13 Scientific American How the Higgs boson might spell doom for the universe Under the simplest assumptions, the measured mass of the Higgs could mean the universe is unstable and destined to fall apart. But don’t worry—it won’t happen for billions of eons.
03/25/13 Scientific American An arbitrary number of years since mathematician Paul Erdős’s birth Paul Erdős published so many papers—and many with such great impact—that a playful measure of one’s academic affiliation with him has been created.
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.