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Physics books of 2015
A tour of 10 of this year’s popular science books delivers dark matter, black holes and a hefty dose of Einstein.
Fermilab has reason to suspect we don’t live in a holographic universe
Inverse, Dec. 4, 2015: Scientists at Fermilab tell us that an experiment designed to test the so-called “holographic principle” found no evidence that the universe is an illusory 3D projection of information encoded at the distant edges of the universe.
Top space stories of 2015: Dark matter hints next door
Astronomy Magazine, Dec. 10, 2015: This past year, a sky survey uncovered nine dwarf galaxies within 1 million light-years of the Milky Way. And one of the galaxies from this Dark Energy Survey was a prime dark matter target: Reticulum II.
Save the particles
To learn more about the particles they collide, physicists turn their attention to a less destructive type of collision in the LHC.
What could dark matter be?
Scientists don’t yet know what dark matter is made of, but they are full of ideas.
Charge-parity violation
Matter and antimatter behave differently. Scientists hope that investigating how might someday explain why we exist.
University of Chicago celebrates national labs
Hyde Park Herald, Nov. 18, 2015: Mayor Rahm Emanuel and University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer kicked off an event titled “The University of Chicago and Affiliated Laboratories: Powerful Partners in Transformative Science” on Friday, Nov. 13, by pointing to the continued prominence of the university as a national leader is scientific developments.
Physicists get a supercomputing boost
Scientists have made the first-ever calculation of a prediction involving the decay of certain matter and antimatter particles.
Connecting the Higgs mass with cosmic history
From Physics, Nov. 23, 2015: The mass of the recently discovered Higgs particle is one of the greatest mysteries in present-day particle physics.