First results from search for a dark light May 26, 2017 | Manuel Gnida The Heavy Photon Search at Jefferson Lab is looking for a hypothetical particle from a hidden “dark sector.”
LHC swings back into action May 23, 2017 | Sarah Charley Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider.
The facts and nothing but the facts May 16, 2017 | Manuel Gnida At a recent workshop on blind analysis, researchers discussed how to keep their expectations out of their results.
CERN unveils new linear accelerator May 9, 2017 Linac 4 will replace an older accelerator as the first step in the complex that includes the LHC.
Understanding the unknown universe May 9, 2017 | Diana Kwon The authors of We Have No Idea remind us that there are still many unsolved mysteries in science.
Sterile neutrino search hits roadblock at reactors May 4, 2017 | Kathryn Jepsen A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.
Mystery glow of Milky Way likely not dark matter May 3, 2017 | Manuel Gnida According to the Fermi LAT collaboration, the galaxy’s excessive gamma-ray glow likely comes from pulsars, the remains of collapsed ancient stars.
#AskSymmetry Twitter chat with Tulika Bose April 28, 2017 See Boston University physicist Tulika Bose’s answers to readers’ questions about research at the Large Hadron Collider.
Did you see it? April 27, 2017 Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there’s more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
Archaeology meets particle physics April 25, 2017 | Jameson O'Reilly Undergraduates search for hidden tombs in Turkey using cosmic-ray muons.