08/08/22 Nature Particle physicists want to build the world’s first muon collider The accelerator would smash together this heavier version of the electron and, researchers hope, discover new particles.
08/01/22 Gizmodo Physicists discover oldest dark matter yet with lensed microwaves Lensing of the cosmic microwave background indicates 12-billion-year-old galaxies had dark matter.
07/26/22 Physics World Helen Edwards: pioneer of Fermilab’s Tevatron Helen Edwards was a formidable force in the field of accelerator science. Her impact can still be felt around the world today.
07/22/22 Science News A new dark matter experiment quashed earlier hints of new particles The XENONnT detector spotted no extra recoiling electrons.
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.
05/26/16 Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.
05/19/16 The Planck scale The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.
05/12/16 Where does mass come from? The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.
05/05/16 Following LIGO’s treasure maps Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.
04/28/16 A GUT feeling about physics Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.