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Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales. 🧪
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Photons light the way
Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales. 🧪
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🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis!
The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
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The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis!
The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
www.kva.se/nobelphysics2025
The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
www.kva.se/nobelphysics2025
The Rubin control room at SLAC is more than a place of emotion and discovery. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/remo... 🧪 #physics
Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin control room
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.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Rubin control room at SLAC is more than a place of emotion and discovery. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/remo... 🧪 #physics
In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dune... 🧪 #physics
DUNE experiment prepares for supernova watch
In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dune... 🧪 #physics
“It’s quite an exciting field at the moment,” says Zohreh Davoudi, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. “Several groups are pushing to reach the milestones that we have set in enabling truly quantum simulations of nature.” www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/into... 🧪 #physics
Into the quantum realm
New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“It’s quite an exciting field at the moment,” says Zohreh Davoudi, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. “Several groups are pushing to reach the milestones that we have set in enabling truly quantum simulations of nature.” www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/into... 🧪 #physics
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. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/impo... 🧪 #physics
‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour
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.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/impo... 🧪 #physics
For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/loca... 🧪 #physics
Local photographer captures physics history in the Black Hills
For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research.
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July 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/loca... 🧪 #physics
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A quantum leap for antimatter measurements
The demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.
📸 Physicist Barbara Latacz working in the BASE experiment.
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The demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.
📸 Physicist Barbara Latacz working in the BASE experiment.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A quantum leap for antimatter measurements
The demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.
📸 Physicist Barbara Latacz working in the BASE experiment.
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The demonstration of first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.
📸 Physicist Barbara Latacz working in the BASE experiment.
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Because scientists cannot directly measure the early universe, they study heavy particles produced inside the LHC to look for clues about their ancestry. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-... 🧪 #physics
LHC scientists find relics of early universe living on in particle spins
Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Because scientists cannot directly measure the early universe, they study heavy particles produced inside the LHC to look for clues about their ancestry. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-... 🧪 #physics
While reflecting on 25 years of the tau neutrino, we at Symmetry noticed that all its direct detections thus far have been performed by experiments with remarkably edible names. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ta... 🧪 #physics
A tasty celebration of the tau neutrino
On July 21, 2000, the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab announced the detection of tau neutrinos for the first time. Here are a few ideas for celebrating 25 years of the most elusive of elusive particle...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
While reflecting on 25 years of the tau neutrino, we at Symmetry noticed that all its direct detections thus far have been performed by experiments with remarkably edible names. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ta... 🧪 #physics
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The winners of the CERN Photowalk 2025 🏆
CERN has announced the 3 winners and 18 runners-up of the CERN Photowalk 2025, a behind-the-scenes photo competition, which received 165 submissions.
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CERN has announced the 3 winners and 18 runners-up of the CERN Photowalk 2025, a behind-the-scenes photo competition, which received 165 submissions.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The winners of the CERN Photowalk 2025 🏆
CERN has announced the 3 winners and 18 runners-up of the CERN Photowalk 2025, a behind-the-scenes photo competition, which received 165 submissions.
Find out more and browse the original pictures: home.cern/news/news/ce...
CERN has announced the 3 winners and 18 runners-up of the CERN Photowalk 2025, a behind-the-scenes photo competition, which received 165 submissions.
Find out more and browse the original pictures: home.cern/news/news/ce...
An unforeseen feature in proton-proton collisions previously observed by the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has now been confirmed by its sister experiment, ATLAS. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/elus... 🧪 #physics
Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC
The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top quarks that suggests that these heaviest of all elementary particles form a fl...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
An unforeseen feature in proton-proton collisions previously observed by the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has now been confirmed by its sister experiment, ATLAS. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/elus... 🧪 #physics
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first imagery today at an event in Washington, D.C. The imagery shows cosmic phenomena captured at an unprecedented scale. 🧪 #physics
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Ever-changing universe revealed in first imagery from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
The world’s largest digital camera brings the night sky to life like never before.
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June 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first imagery today at an event in Washington, D.C. The imagery shows cosmic phenomena captured at an unprecedented scale. 🧪 #physics
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During the last week of June, about 600 scientists will meet in Venice with the goal of answering the question “What’s next?” www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/what... 🧪 #physics
What’s next for European physics?
Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
During the last week of June, about 600 scientists will meet in Venice with the goal of answering the question “What’s next?” www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/what... 🧪 #physics
The field of time-domain astronomy studies varying celestial objects, but how do astronomers catch the most ephemeral of these phenomena before they fizzle? www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-... 🧪 #physics
The algorithms that help scientists sort through a universe of change
Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The field of time-domain astronomy studies varying celestial objects, but how do astronomers catch the most ephemeral of these phenomena before they fizzle? www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-... 🧪 #physics
Scientists know of about 1,000 strong gravitational lenses right now, “but with Rubin we should be able to get to a few tens of thousands,” says Phil Marshall, Deputy Director of Operations for the Rubin Observatory and Senior Scientist at SLAC. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dial... 🧪 #physics
Dialing gravitational lensing research up to 11
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of Science, will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of t...
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June 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Scientists know of about 1,000 strong gravitational lenses right now, “but with Rubin we should be able to get to a few tens of thousands,” says Phil Marshall, Deputy Director of Operations for the Rubin Observatory and Senior Scientist at SLAC. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dial... 🧪 #physics
The Muon g-2 experiment's third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with previous results, further solidifying the experimental world average. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/muon... 🧪 #physics
Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon
The experiment's third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with previous results, further solidifying the experimental world average.
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June 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Muon g-2 experiment's third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with previous results, further solidifying the experimental world average. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/muon... 🧪 #physics
Modern “ether” moments are forcing the particle physics community to revisit their favorite theories and reconcile with some difficult truths. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/when... 🧪 #physics
When the universe answers with silence
With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental assumptions.
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May 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Modern “ether” moments are forcing the particle physics community to revisit their favorite theories and reconcile with some difficult truths. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/when... 🧪 #physics
The majority of particle interactions during the LHC’s lead-ion run—more than 98%—result from what are actually near misses. In those cases, even though the two nuclei never touch, strange things can still happen. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-... 🧪 #physics
LHC near-miss collisions turn lead into gold
In a recent study, ALICE scientists measured the way that lead ions colliding in the LHC sometimes transform into gold and other new nuclei.
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May 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The majority of particle interactions during the LHC’s lead-ion run—more than 98%—result from what are actually near misses. In those cases, even though the two nuclei never touch, strange things can still happen. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/lhc-... 🧪 #physics
"When data started coming in... astronomers noticed something unusual: The early universe is freckled with small, red galaxies that they’d never seen before." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-... 🧪 #physics
The freckled universe
There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.
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May 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"When data started coming in... astronomers noticed something unusual: The early universe is freckled with small, red galaxies that they’d never seen before." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-... 🧪 #physics
This is the first time scientists have found a matter-antimatter asymmetry in proton-like particles. It took more than a decade of searching, but one exceptionally dedicated graduate student finally caught a lucky break. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/spot... 🧪 #physics
Spot the difference
LHCb’s discovery of proton-like particles behaving differently than their antimatter counterparts brings scientists one step closer to finding out why antimatter disappeared in the early universe.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is the first time scientists have found a matter-antimatter asymmetry in proton-like particles. It took more than a decade of searching, but one exceptionally dedicated graduate student finally caught a lucky break. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/spot... 🧪 #physics
NSF–DOE @vrubinobs.bsky.social is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new technology. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/shar... 🧪 #physics
Sharpening our cosmic focus
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new technology.
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April 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NSF–DOE @vrubinobs.bsky.social is gearing up to illuminate the universe’s darkest secrets with groundbreaking new technology. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/shar... 🧪 #physics
If your dataset is so voluminous, or it arrives at such high velocity, or it contains such great variety, that you must reimagine the way you use it—you have a big data problem. How do you solve it? 🧪 #physics
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Explain it in 60 seconds: big data
How do you solve a problem like big data?
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April 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If your dataset is so voluminous, or it arrives at such high velocity, or it contains such great variety, that you must reimagine the way you use it—you have a big data problem. How do you solve it? 🧪 #physics
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“We’re in the situation where we know something weird is going on, but we don't know what it is, and we don't know why it's happening,” says Phil Marshall, a Senior Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ne... 🧪 #physics
A new side to dark energy steps into the light
The long and continuing quest to understand dark energy has entered exciting new territory.
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April 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“We’re in the situation where we know something weird is going on, but we don't know what it is, and we don't know why it's happening,” says Phil Marshall, a Senior Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ne... 🧪 #physics
"The team was now sure that they were seeing something new, and they had a few ideas about what it could be. But before claiming a discovery, they wanted to find out what the theorists had to say." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dont... 🧪 #physics
Don’t call it toponium
A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"The team was now sure that they were seeing something new, and they had a few ideas about what it could be. But before claiming a discovery, they wanted to find out what the theorists had to say." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dont... 🧪 #physics