Close-up images show how stars explode in real time

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented ...
The New York Times

What Physics Knows About Ghostly Neutrinos Muddled by New Experiments

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter. By Kenneth Chang Just how many types of neutrinos ...
Quanta Magazine

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider

Ninety million times a year, when protons crash together at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they produce, in their wreckage, a top quark and an anti-top quark, the heaviest known elementary particles ...
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Android Authority

Nova Launcher gets surprise update following last month's shutdown, but there's a catch

Nova Launcher appeared to have shut down for good last month when its founder, Kevin Barry, left its parent company Branch Metrics. The launcher received a rare update on the Google Play Store today, ...
sci

NOvA and T2K Experiments Zero In on Unusual Properties of Neutrinos

In both NOvA (NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance experiment) and T2K experiments, neutrinos are fired from particle accelerators and detected after traveling long distances underground. The challenge is ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Ancient Desert Death Trap’ Review: Excavating Ingenuity on PBS

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...
The Current

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Introducing our October Artist of the Month — Motion City Soundtrack. The renowned 30-year-old rock band just released their first album in 10 years, and 7th overall – The Same Old Wasted Wonderful ...
Quanta Magazine

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...
The Conversation

Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...
SFGate

Berkeley: George Smoot, Nobel Laureate Who Helped Confirm The Big Bang, Dies At 80

George Fitzgerald Smoot III, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose experiments about space provided some of the most convincing evidence that the universe began with a Big Bang, died on Sept. 18 in ...
Space.com

How do particle colliders work?

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets. Particle accelerators, also known as particle ...