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 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
“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
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
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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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
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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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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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
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
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
"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
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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“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
Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound differences between matter and antimatter. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-ne... 🧪 #physics
Combining data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument with data from other experiments shows signs that the impact of dark energy may be weakening over time—and the standard model of how the universe works may need an update. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/new-... 🧪 #physics
To mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the top quark, Fermilab spoke with 2 researchers who contributed to this breakthrough: Douglas Glenzinski, who worked on the CDF experiment, and Pushpalatha Bhat, who worked on the DZero experiment: www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/scie... 🧪 #physics
Most students who earn a PhD in physics build careers outside of research. Meet four physicists who went from particle physics research to teaching high school physics and math: 🧪 #physics
The upgrade will significantly increase the collision rate of the LHC and allow scientists to collect an order of magnitude more data. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/expl... 🧪 #physics
