05/05/20 Physics community designs simplified ventilator The Mechanical Ventilator Milano, or MVM, went from concept through approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in a little over a month.
04/15/20 T2K advances investigation of matter-antimatter imbalance New results from the T2K experiment in Japan rule out with 99.7% confidence nearly half of the possible range of values that could indicate how neutrinos behave compared to their antimatter counterparts.
03/02/20 ICARUS prepares to chase a fourth neutrino In February, scientists at Fermilab began cooling down the ICARUS neutrino detector and filling it with 760 tons of liquid argon.
02/05/20 MICE brings muon collider closer to reality The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment has achieved its goal of squeezing a beam of muons before they decay.
11/15/19 ISS astronauts start AMS repair A series of joint NASA and ESA spacewalks four years in the making aims to extend the life of the AMS particle detector.
10/28/19 DESI opens its 5000 eyes With installation near completion, the new sky-surveying instrument has begun final testing.
10/21/19 Scientists combine forces to study first light Scientists are designing a next-generation experiment to map the Big Bang’s relic afterglow.
10/14/19 DUNE scientists see particle tracks with dual-phase technology Scientists working at CERN have started tests of a new neutrino detector prototype that uses a promising technology called “dual phase.”
10/08/19 Nobel awarded for theoretical cosmology, exoplanet discovery James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
08/06/19 Breakthrough Prize awarded to architects of supergravity Three theoretical physicists have won the Breakthrough Prize for developing a way to connect general relativity with particle physics.
07/11/19 Satellite galaxies provide new clues about dark matter A new study shows that light dark matter is 1000 times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous analyses allowed.
06/19/19 A miniature camera for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope ComCam will help test the observatory once it is installed in Chile later this year.
05/16/19 Europe’s path forward Physicists meet this week in Granada, Spain, to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
04/03/19 DESI lenses see first light The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will begin operation later this year.
03/21/19 LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks A new observation by the LHCb experiment finds that charm quarks behave differently than their antiparticle counterparts.
03/07/19 Japan defers ILC decision In their latest meeting with scientists, the Japanese government declined to stake a claim to hosting the ILC.
