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Ann Nelson Took On the Biggest Problems in Physics

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
August 22, 2019
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The theoretical particle physicist Ann Nelson, who died on August 4 at age 61, was a font of brilliant ideas and a champion of ending discrimination in the field.

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Q&A

A Call for Courage as Physicists Confront Collider Dilemma

By Thomas Lewton
August 7, 2019
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Carlo Rubbia, leader of the bold collider experiment that in 1983 discovered the W and Z bosons, thinks particle physicists should now smash muons together in an innovative “Higgs factory.”

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The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries

By K.C. Cole
June 26, 2019
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Lurking behind Einstein’s theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was.

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The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined

By Natalie Wolchover
May 1, 2019
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The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility of even more exotic physics.

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The Physics Still Hiding in the Higgs Boson

By Natalie Wolchover
March 4, 2019
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No new particles have been found at the Large Hadron Collider since the Higgs boson in 2012, but physicists say there’s much we can still learn from the Higgs itself.

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Supercharge the Search for New Particles

By Charlie Wood
July 23, 2018
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In the hunt for new fundamental particles, physicists have always had to make assumptions about how the particles will behave. New machine learning algorithms don’t.

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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

By Natalie Wolchover
July 20, 2018
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New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”

Sau Lan Wu at CERN, 2018
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Three Major Physics Discoveries and Counting

By Joshua Roebke
July 18, 2018
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Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it.

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Abstractions blog

Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle

By Natalie Wolchover
June 1, 2018
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An experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago has detected far more electron neutrinos than predicted — a possible harbinger of a revolutionary new elementary particle called the sterile neutrino, though many physicists remain skeptical.


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