3 Questions: Philip Harris on first observation of long-predicted Higgs boson decay
Seeing Higgs boson decay required “magic-eye” focus; may help physicists understand why the universe has mass.
Seeing Higgs boson decay required “magic-eye” focus; may help physicists understand why the universe has mass.
Moitra, O’Gorman, Perez, and Minicozzi were nominated by students and colleagues for demonstrating excellence in instruction.
Results are among the strongest evidence yet for “spooky action at a distance.”
Bright light from black hole in a feeding frenzy had been obscuring surrounding galaxies.
Measurement of an exoplanet transit demonstrates proof of concept that small spacecraft can perform high-precision photometry.
The positively charged particles may have an outsize influence on the properties of neutron stars and other neutron-rich objects.
MIT’s John Belcher discusses the launch of the Parker Solar Probe, which will fly directly into the sun’s atmosphere.
Four students are first beneficiaries of grant program established by Assistant Professor Lindley Winslow with support from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices.
Proposal for powerful particle collider gets National Academies’ go-ahead.
Most thorough test to date finds no Lorentz violation in high-energy neutrinos.
The “ghostly particle” is confirmed to have originated from a blazar, nearly 4 billion light years from Earth.
Signals from rare black hole-neutron star pairs could pinpoint rate at which universe is growing, researchers say.
Laboratory for Nuclear Science project selected to explore machine learning for lattice quantum chromodynamics.