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. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ph...

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. 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

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 www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/ever...

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 www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/expl...

“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

The only particle more ubiquitous than the neutrino is light. And yet unlike light, neutrinos are almost completely invisible not just to our eyes, but even to the most sensitive particle detectors. Why is that? www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/why-... 🧪 #physics

Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/phot... 🧪 #physics #photography

"The lead in this vial is worth $15,000, and it’s about to go on a journey back to the origins of the universe." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-... 🧪 #physics

SNOLAB’s low-background-counting group takes the best possible measurements of distracting signals to help mitigate their effects on delicate experiments attempting to figure out our universe. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/brin... 🧪 #physics

After 10 years of construction, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory (@vrubinobs.bsky.social) is less than one year away from the start of its transformational movie of our changing night sky. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/test... 🧪 #physics

Adding this to the science feed! Learn more about the US national laboratories with Symmetry's interactive map: www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/from... 🧪 #physics

"In their latest planning activity, US physicists made it clear that there’s room for smaller—and less expensive—experiments, too." www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/smal... 🧪 #physics

"This gap in our understanding is both humbling and exciting. How can we claim to understand the universe when such a significant piece is missing?" A Q&A with dark-matter researchers Daniel Akerib and Thomas Shutt: www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/insi... 🧪 #physics

Writer Chetna Krishna follows CERN’s “coolest” transport, a test of a system to ship stored antimatter across the continent. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/anti... 🧪 #physics

A new CERN course, currently in its pilot phase, teaches particle physics basics online. The 16-part course is catered to high school students but available to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental questions in particle physics. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/new-... 🧪

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“I don’t think it happens very often in the career of a scientist that you have something that is exciting and new, and that no one had done before.” www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-... 🧪

In their new study, DESI researchers found that gravity behaves as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The result validates our leading model of the universe and limits possible theories of modified gravity. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/new-... 🧪

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A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/reco...

Olivia Valentino, an Italian PhD student studying particle physics at Imperial College London, has spent a good part of the last three months 4,850 feet underground. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/dark...

Tomorrow! Meet scientists searching for dark matter through the LZ experiment in a livestream with Sanford Underground Research Facility: sanfordlab.org/events/deep-... #DarkMatterDay

Today, 17 national labs employ tens of thousands of scientists, as well as workers of all stripes, including engineers, firefighters and cafeteria workers. Researchers from across the globe make use of these unique facilities. Learn more with Symmetry’s updated interactive map!