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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.

Electron-neutrino candidate in Super Kamiokande
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Neutrinos Suggest Solution to Mystery of Universe’s Existence

By Katia Moskvitch
December 12, 2017
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Updated results from a Japanese neutrino experiment continue to reveal an inconsistency in the way that matter and antimatter behave.

Particle trails
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How the Hidden Higgs Could Reveal Our Universe’s Dark Sector

By Bob Henderson
September 26, 2017
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The universe has not cooperated with physicists’ hopes. In desperation, many are looking for new ways to search for surprises at the Large Hadron Collider.

Janet Conrad
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Janet Conrad, Seeker of Neutrinos and Other Curiosities

By Michael Moyer +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
August 21, 2017
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The physicist and curios collector hopes to reveal the hidden structure lurking in the subatomic world.

Helen Quinn and Roberto Peccei at Stanford University
Thinking Places

Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep

By Thomas Lin +2 authors
Olena Shmahalo
Lucy Reading-Ikkanda
June 15, 2017
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The two physicists who introduced Peccei-Quinn symmetry came up with their idea on and around Stanford University’s campus 40 years ago.


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