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Photo of a bump in the LHC data
03/18/16

Bump Watch 2016

A bump in the LHC data has physicists electrified…but what does it mean?

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03/02/16

SuperKEKB reborn

The Japanese accelerator takes its first steps toward resuming its hunt for the universe’s missing antimatter.

Illustration of ATLAS diphoton event
12/17/15

LHC ends 2015 with a cliffhanger

Two LHC experiments see an unexpected bump, but scientists need more data to figure out whether it's worth getting excited about.

daya bay antineutrino detector
10/07/15

A measurement to watch

Finding a small discrepancy in measurements of the properties of neutrinos could show us how they fit into the bigger picture.

Photo of Eric Colby
11/24/14

Creating a spark

Science has a long history of creativity generated through collaboration between fields.

Sketch of SUSY bet
06/16/14

The supersymmetric bet

Particle physicists playfully take sides over whether the Large Hadron Collider is likely to discover evidence of Supersymmetry.

Photo of BaBar coil arrives in cargo plane
02/18/14

BaBar still breaking new ground

Twenty years after a cutting-edge particle physics experiment at SLAC adopted a royal elephant from a series of children’s books as its mascot, BaBar (the experiment, not the elephant) is still looking ahead to future discoveries.

Photo of Jefferson Lab's Hall A
02/10/14

Quarks in the looking glass

A recent experiment at Jefferson Lab probed the mirror symmetry of quarks, determining that one of their intrinsic properties is non-zero—as predicted by the Standard Model.

Illustration of Quantum Entanglement
01/28/14

Quantum entanglement

Through ‘spooky action at a distance,’ the properties of two systems remain correlated even after they are separated.