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.
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.
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.
10/01/20
The “Snowmass” process seeks to identify the most promising questions to explore in future research.
09/22/20
Handedness—and the related concept of chirality—are double-sided ways of understanding how matter breaks symmetries.
09/15/20
In this stop-motion video, Symmetry writer Zack Savitsky imagines an artist whose supplies have taken on some of the properties of neutrinos.
07/14/20
A collaboration of the Americas aims to take the first pioneering images of low-energy neutrinos and provide new data to shed light on the mysterious identity of dark matter.
07/13/20
A dash of virtual reality helps replicate the serendipitous interactions of an in-person conference when participants are scattered across the globe.
06/24/20
Construction workers have carried out the first underground blasting for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, which will provide the space, infrastructure and particle beam for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
06/24/20
The Borexino experiment announces the first detection of neutrinos from a secondary cycle that fuels our closest star.
06/22/20
The 2020 European Strategy recommends pursuing a Higgs factory, investigating a next-generation hadron collider at CERN, and ramping up accelerator technology R&D.
06/16/20
The discovery of the muon originally confounded physicists. Today international experiments are using the previously perplexing particle to gain a new understanding of our world.
06/09/20
Neutrinos don’t seem to get their mass in the same way as other particles in the Standard Model.