Most astronomers trek to the mountaintops to study the stars, but a group of physicists are seeking the secrets of the cosmos with a detector at the bottom of the ocean. Deep underwater, far off the ...

Take an interactive animated journey through the particle physics alphabet. Accelerators and black holes and cryostats, oh my! We know particle physics can seem daunting at times, but everything’s ...

Scientists on an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider see massive W particles emerging from collisions with electromagnetic fields. How can this happen? The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert ...

A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction story-based class. In the beginning, a spaceship called the Yggdrasil is sailing through the cosmos ...

With CMB-S4, scientists hope to connect a sandy desert with a polar desert—and revolutionize our understanding of the early universe. In the 1960s, an anomalous, faint electromagnetic glow was ...

Although scientists have yet to find the spooky stuff, they aren’t completely in the dark. There are a lot of things scientists don’t know about dark matter: Can we catch it in a detector? Can we make ...

Twenty photos, two detectors, one goal. To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in the universe, particle physicists design and build high-tech detectors. On top of the incredible science they ...

During the last four years, LHC scientists have filled in gaps in our knowledge and tested the boundaries of the Standard Model. Behind some of the world’s biggest scientific instruments are teams ...

While driven by the desire to pursue curiosity, fundamental investigations are the crucial first step to innovation. When scientists announced their discovery of gravitational waves in 2016, it made ...

A technique from the newest generation of quantum sensors is helping scientists to use the limitations of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to their advantage. In the 1960s, researchers at the ...

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