05/07/13 A knack for exploring With a solid grounding in physics, Thomas Humphrey shares the fun of discovery at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.
05/07/13 Smallest lab-made drop of liquid might cause strange particle behavior A new result from the CMS collaboration takes a step toward revealing the origin of the mysterious ‘ridge effect.’
05/02/13 Dark-matter detector hears first particle pops The COUPP-60 dark-matter experiment begins recording the trails of bubbles that passing particles form in its detector.
04/30/13 Free from the start Since CERN released the World Wide Web without royalties 20 years ago, the technology has flourished.
04/30/13 Matter, antimatter, we all fall down—right? Scientists perform the first direct investigation into how antimatter interacts with gravity.
04/29/13 Dark Energy Survey launches new photo blog Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey share weekly photos taken by and of the world’s most powerful digital camera.
04/26/13 SLAC’s historic ‘End Station A’ hosts electron beams again A new facility opens for experiments in SLAC’s historic End Station A, where the first evidence for quarks was discovered.
04/24/13 Strange beauty particle decays boost matter Physicists from the LHCb collaboration observe CP violation in the decay of a particle made of beauty and strange quarks.
04/23/13 Icy experiment catches record-energy neutrinos The IceCube experiment makes what could be an important step toward using neutrinos to find the source of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
04/23/13 Plasma acceleration Like surfers on huge ocean waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies.
04/19/13 Q&A with Fabiola Gianotti, Higgs hunter Symmetry sits down with Fabiola Gianotti, who recently finished an eventful four years as spokesperson for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.
04/18/13 Photowalk winners show modern beauty of science Judges announce the winners of the 2012 Global Particle Physics Photowalk.
04/16/13 Naturalness When a scientific result fails the test of “naturalness,” it can point to new physics.
04/16/13 LHC passes ‘ping-pong ball’ test Physicists send an ultra-clean, miniature ping-pong ball through part of the Large Hadron Collider beam pipe to test for hidden defects.
04/15/13 Underground experiment sees possible hints of dark matter The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment adds new intrigue to the hunt for dark matter.
04/11/13 Shall I compare thee to a spinning pulsar? A scientist uses a technique from astronomy to investigate whether William Shakespeare really wrote all of those sonnets.
