02/25/21
Higgs-boson pairs could help scientists understand the stability of our universe. The trick is finding them.
02/23/21
Missing visits to the museum? Or in need of some home-school activities? Check out these five do-it-yourself physics demos!
02/16/21
Scientists in Latin America recently published the first coordinated plan for the region’s research in high-energy physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
02/15/21
The observatory has made detailed information about an initial selection of its recorded cosmic-ray events available for outside scientists to use.
02/09/21
Particle physics might be complex, but it’s nothing compared to the confusion of human existence.
02/02/21
Later this decade, the Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded to the High-Luminosity LHC. What does “luminosity” mean in particle physics?
01/26/21
Organizers of the planning exercise that helps shape the future of US particle physics have moved its final workshop back by one year.
01/26/21
Scientists wrote more than 1500 letters of interest to share ideas about what they hope the next decade of particle physics will bring.
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.
