06/24/22 Scientific American How the Higgs boson ruined Peter Higgs’s life A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight
06/17/22 CERN CERN Council declares its intention to terminate cooperation agreements with Russia and Belarus at their expiration dates in 2024 CERN was established in the aftermath of World War II to bring nations and people together for the peaceful pursuit of science.
06/16/22 WIRED Particle hunters can spend a lifetime searching for answers In physics, experiments to answer the big questions can take decades to run—and might not produce any findings at all.
06/13/22 The New York Times As the Large Hadron Collider revs up, physicists’ hopes soar The particle collider at CERN will soon restart. “There could be a revolution coming,” scientists say.
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.
02/04/16 Weighing the lightest particle Physicists are using one of the oldest laws of nature to find the mass of the elusive neutrino.
01/20/16 Is the neutrino its own antiparticle? The mysterious particle could hold the key to why matter won out over antimatter in the early universe.
01/14/16 Exploring the dark universe with supercomputers Next-generation telescopic surveys will work hand-in-hand with supercomputers to study the nature of dark energy.
01/07/16 How to wrangle a particle Learn some particle accelerator basics from a Fermilab accelerator operator.