The Large Hadron Collider gets reset and refreshed each year – a CERN physicist explains how the team uses subatomic splashes to restart the experiments

The LHC is back in business for the year, but getting it ready to collect data isn’t always a straightforward process. You can’t just unplug it and plug it in again.

Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Particle Physicist working at CERN on the ATLAS experiment, Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
July 17, 2024 • ~7 min

Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

An exciting new experiment is being set up at Yale university in the US.

Andrea Gallo Rosso, Postdoctoral Fellow of Physics, Stockholm University • conversation
April 25, 2024 • ~7 min

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

Tau neutrinos are notoriously difficult to spot in detectors like IceCube. But researchers have managed to isolate 7 candidates.

Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State • conversation
April 25, 2024 • ~8 min

Peter Higgs’ famous particle discovery is now at the heart of strategies to unlock the secrets of the universe

The US, Europe and China are all planning particle colliders that would study the Higgs boson.

Martin Bauer, Associate Professor of Physics, Durham University • conversation
April 19, 2024 • ~8 min

Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

During a walk in the Scottish Highlands, one of the greats of particle physics had the idea of a lifetime

Harald Fox, Senior Lecturer of Particle Physics, Lancaster University • conversation
April 11, 2024 • ~5 min

The universe is expanding faster than theory predicts – physicists are searching for new ideas that might explain the mismatch

The universe is expanding faster than physicists would expect. To figure out what processes underlie this fast expansion rate, some researchers are first trying to rule out what processes can’t.

Ryan Keeley, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, University of California, Merced • conversation
Nov. 15, 2023 • ~7 min

New technique uses near-miss particle physics to peer into quantum world − two physicists explain how they are measuring wobbling tau particles

Physicists uncovered a new experiment hidden in old data from the Large Hadron Collider. Using this innovative approach, the team has unlocked an entirely new way to study quantum physics.

Dennis V. Perepelitsa, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Oct. 17, 2023 • ~10 min

Antimatter: we cracked how gravity affects it – here's what it means for our understanding of the universe

It seems there isn’t a sci-fi part if the universe in which everything is made of antimatter.

William Bertsche, Lecturer in Particle Physics, Manchester University • conversation
Sept. 27, 2023 • ~7 min

Is there new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics? Our finding will help settle the question

New measurement of wobbling muons back up previous findings – potentially challenging the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

Saskia Charity, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Particle Physics, University of Liverpool • conversation
Aug. 10, 2023 • ~8 min

Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter

To detect dark matter, you need to build an ultra-sensitive detector and put it somewhere ultra-quiet. For one physics collaboration, that place is almost a mile under Lead, S.D.

Hugh Lippincott, Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara • conversation
Aug. 9, 2023 • ~7 min

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