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Physics vocabulary: AI edition

04/18/24

Emily Ayshford, Kim Hickok, Chris Patrick

Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? Symmetry is here to help.

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11/14/23

LHC physicists can’t save them all

As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything.

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11/07/23

Can we fit the universe in a box?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?

10/30/23

Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America

Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial holiday devoted to dark matter.

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10/26/23

Physics fashion and collider couture

Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.

10/19/23

New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies

The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter and the structure of our universe.

Illustration of Einstein shining a flashlight ahead of the "Spacetime Express" train

10/17/23

Spacetime: All the universe’s a stage

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.

10/10/23

CERN opens Science Gateway

About 1,400 people attended the grand opening of CERN’s new science education center.

Illustration of Galileo dropping antimatter off the Tower of Pisa

09/27/23

Antimatter falls down

Results from the ALPHA experiment confirm that matter and antimatter react to gravity in a similar way.

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