12/15/20
Until recently, scientists had never detected black holes in the “mass gap”—now, particle physicists are exploring ideas beyond the Standard Model that could explain them.
12/10/20
Scientists show how quantum computing could be a game-changer in our understanding of quantum processes.
12/08/20
Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s favorite physics books of 2020 cover an impressive span of time: from the very beginning of our universe until the very end.
12/01/20
A recent observation of an extremely rare subatomic process allows scientists to test the Standard Model’s boundaries.
11/17/20
Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real?
11/10/20
Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.
11/03/20
Sal Wanying Fu knows there’s more to science than numbers.
10/29/20
The newly operational KAGRA will bump the number of gravitational-wave observatories to four, which will allow scientists to better triangulate the source of ripples in space-time.