The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, Karl Jakobs worked on physics experiments that had a few hundred ...

Neutrinos don’t seem to get their mass in the same way as other particles in the Standard Model. In 1998, researchers made a discovery that challenged their understanding of particle physics and ...

Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet. The Standard Model of particle physics is ...

Getting there. Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

There are no tricks, only treats, when you add science to your annual pumpkin-carving festivities. That’s why we at Symmetry created designs featuring spooky versions of important figures from the ...

Not only are we made of fundamental particles, we also produce them and are constantly bombarded by them throughout the day. Fourteen billion years ago, when the hot, dense speck that was our universe ...

Astrophysicists are combining multiple methods to reveal the secrets of some of the weirdest objects in the universe. Neutron stars are arguably the strangest objects in the cosmos. Born from the ...

The fundamental particle of light is both ordinary and full of surprises. What physicists refer to as photons, other people might just call light. As quanta of light, photons are the smallest possible ...

In 1995, Alexander Grohsjean cut out a story from the local German newspaper Saarbrücker Zeitung. He was 16 years old and mystified by what he read. “I brought it to school because I wanted to find a ...

A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe. Mass is a fundamental property of matter, but there’s still a lot about it we don’t ...