01/14/21
The ATLAS collaboration has begun to publish likelihood functions, information that will allow researchers to better understand and use their experiment’s data in future analyses.
01/12/21
Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet.
01/05/21
Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms.
12/17/20
Matter and antimatter particles can behave differently, but where these differences show up (and where they don’t) is still a puzzle.
12/15/20
Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them.
12/10/20
Scientists show how quantum computing could be a game-changer in our understanding of quantum processes.
12/08/20
Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s favorite physics books of 2020 cover an impressive span of time: from the very beginning of our universe until the very end.
12/01/20
A recent observation of an extremely rare subatomic process allows scientists to test the Standard Model’s boundaries.
11/17/20
Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real?
11/10/20
Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.
11/03/20
Sal Wanying Fu knows there’s more to science than numbers.
10/29/20
The newly operational KAGRA will bump the number of gravitational-wave observatories to four, which will allow scientists to better triangulate the source of ripples in space-time.
10/27/20
Crews building the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment have overcome COVID-19 obstacles to reach a major milestone en route to startup.
10/22/20
Taking place on Twitter and in webinars, #BlackInPhysics week features events geared toward Black physicists, the entire physics community and the general public.
10/20/20
Here’s how physicists calculate g-2, the value that will determine whether the muon is giving us a sign of new physics.
10/13/20
Rubin Observatory will bring new capabilities to the studies of dark matter and dark energy.
