In February, the Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation asked the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel "to form a committee to write a document" that addresses the synergies and complementarities of the Large Hadron Collider, now under constructi
The future of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center involves a broadening from traditional particle physics experiments to research from subatomic to cosmological scales.
On the night of April 27, 2002, the Apache Point 3.5 m telescope in New Mexico captured the light signature of SDSS 1148+5251, the most distant quasar known. A quasar is a compact, ultraluminous object thought to be powered by material falling into a giant black hole.
In 1978 Alan Guth heard about the “flatness problem” of the universe while attending a talk on cosmology—a field he was only marginally curious about. A year later, Guth found a solution.
Gravitational lenses distort light and help scientists study dark matter.
Twenty-five years after Alan Guth turned cosmology on its head, what’s the latest story of the universe’s first moments?
Searching for the secrets of the universe in the depths of the earth.
A curious paradox faces modern science. Scientists are specializing more than ever before within their fields of research but some of the greatest progress is being made by those who bridge fields using a cross-fertilization of ideas.
