A Year in Dark Energy, Antimatter, and Gravitational Waves
The Standard Model, the framework that has defined—and confined—physics for so long, still reins. But sometimes cracks appear in its…
The Large Hadron Collider Gets An Upgrade
Physicists have high hopes for the LHC’s second run. The post The Large Hadron Collider Gets An Upgrade appeared first…
Dinky, Teeny Tiny Accelerators Are Coming
It wasn’t just big accelerators that made the news in 2015. Small is beautiful too. The post Dinky, Teeny Tiny…
SETI Gets a $100 Million Gift
This summer Russian tech billionaire Yuri Milner announced he’ll fund the most extensive sweep yet for radio signals from alien…
Universe Not (Yet) Found to be a Hologram, Bummer
An experiment based at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, has tested one theory of how the “hologram universe”…
The Biggest Physics Moments of 2015
In 2015, physics is standing on a bridge between the old world and the new. The post The Biggest Physics…
Rumours of Cracks in the Standard Model—Finally!
Physicists working with the world’s most powerful particle accelerator presented the first results from the LHC’s souped-up, more powerful second…
Dark Matter … Still Super Hard to Find
Something is awry in the cosmos. Most of the universe seems to be … essentially, missing. The post Dark Matter…
An Upgrade Helps to Look for Gravitational Waves
A newly-improved Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory began generating data this year, after a $200 million upgrade. The post An…
New Accelerators on the Horizon
Sure, the LHC is impressive. But even bigger machines are in the works. The post New Accelerators on the Horizon…