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Muons: Emblems of discovery

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Published: January 13, 2026 23:43

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

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Published: December 9, 2025 14:37

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC prepares to start its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

Photons light the way

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Published: December 1, 2025 18:19

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales.

Dark Matter: A Worldwide Search

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Published: November 19, 2025 18:35

Something is out there. As far as scientists know, just 15% of the matter in the universe is the ordinary kind we can see. The other 85%, called dark matter, remains beyond detection, invisibly affecting the movements of galaxies and subtly warping our…

Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin control room

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Published: September 23, 2025 12:50

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

DUNE experiment prepares for supernova watch

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Published: September 16, 2025 13:00

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins.

Into the quantum realm

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Published: August 19, 2025 13:26

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems.

‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

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Published: August 5, 2025 13:00

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

Local photographer captures physics history in the Black Hills

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Published: July 29, 2025 14:54

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research.

A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

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Published: July 23, 2025 15:08

The demonstration of the first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.