String Theorists' Heads Bobble Over Potential Dark Energy Wobble
Harvard physicist Cumrun Vafa is one of string theory’s strongest proponents. But this summer, other string theorists…
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More Than 200 Physicists Denounce Sexist Lecture at CERN
A group of 19 physicists penned a statement denouncing the talk given last week by Italian physicist Alessandro Strumia…
Physicist Who Coined the 'God Particle' and Sold His Nobel Prize to Pay Medical Bills Dies at 96
Leon Lederman, the former head of the Fermi National Accelerator Lab and winner of the the Nobel Prize in physics in…
We Regret to Inform You the Large Hadron Collider Will Not Annihilate Earth
There’s a tired, much-debunked doomsday theory pushed by British physicist Martin Rees that powerful particle colliders…
Donna Strickland, Third Woman to Ever Win Nobel Prize in Physics, Helped Make Awesome Laser Tool
Scientists Arthur Ashkin from the U.S.-based Bell Labs, Gérard Mourou from École Polytechnique in France, and Donna…
Male Physicist Claims Women Are Worse at Physics at CERN Gender Bias Talk
This weekend, a prominent Italian physicist, Alessandro Strumia, lectured fledging women scientists at CERN about the…
New Particle Could Explain 'Unusual' Antarctic Weather Balloon Detection
An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking the…
The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here's What's Next for Particle Physics
September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already…
A New Hunt for a 'Dark Force' Begins This Month in Italy
This month, Italian physicists will turn on an experiment hunting for a fifth, dark force of nature, the Guardian…
Physicists Just Made the Most Precise Measurement Ever of Gravity's Strength
Gravity might feel strong if you drop a bowling ball on your feet, but is in fact the weakest force. Compare it to…
Ancient ‘Monster Galaxy’ Is Forming Stars a Thousand Times Faster Than the Milky Way
Chile’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has observed a galaxy that looks nothing like what…
Physicists Achieve Incredible Electron-Accelerating Feat at Small Scale
Particle physics experiments are huge—they have to be, in order to accelerate particles with enough energy to properly…
Scientists Will Soon Drop Antimatter to See How It Behaves in Gravity
Antimatter continues to behave just like regular matter, no matter what tests scientists throw at it. And in the face…
Scientists Solve Spaghetti Mystery That Irked Richard Feynman
Scientists have spent a lot more time breaking dry spaghetti noodles than you might think. For, if you can control…
Surprising Accelerator Finding Could Change the Way We Think About Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are having a renaissance, as far as space objects go. These ultra-dense collapsed stars are the source of…
Scientists Made a Weird System to Study the Mysteries of Photonic Crystals
When you see light, you’re looking at photons spat out by an excited atom. But what if instead of light, an excited…
The Large Hadron Collider Accelerated 'Atoms' With Electrons for the First Time
You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in…
New American Particle Collider Gets Thumbs Up From National Academies of Sciences
A proposed billion-dollar American particle collider has received enthusiastic backing from the US National Academies…
Scientists Made the Fastest-Spinning Particles Ever to Test the Limits of Physics
Scientists made nanoparticles that spin around each other a billion times per second, the fastest mechanical rotation…