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Machine learning and theory

04/30/24

Madeleine O’Keefe

Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and eliminate untenable theories—but could they transform what it means to make discoveries?

01/30/24

CMS scientists expand search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider

CMS scientists are analyzing the first dataset gathered through a new tool designed to search for long-lived particles.

Members of the PIP-II team from Fermilab and STFC UKRI stand in front of the prototype HB650 cryomodule at Daresbury Laboratory

01/23/24

PIP-II team transports first cryomodule between UK and Fermilab

The United Kingdom will eventually contribute three assembled cryomodules—known as HB650 for the radio frequency they use to operate—to Fermilab’s new particle accelerator.

01/18/24

A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder

Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.

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01/09/24

Science fiction inspires a new astrophysics university class

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class.

01/08/24

Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights into the expansion of the universe

In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning.

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12/19/23

Bringing eclipsed women of astronomy and physics into the light

In Her Space, Her Time, physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led some of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy and physics.

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12/18/23

Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC

Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum entanglement.

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12/12/23

What’s so hard about measuring the strong force?

The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still a long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force.

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