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Fermi Satellite Observes Billionth Gamma Ray with LAT Instrument
Sensitive gamma-ray “eye” on NASA’s Fermi space telescope continues to provide unprecedented views of violent phenomena in the cosmos.
Symmetry: Sterile Neutrino Search Hits Roadblock at Reactors
A new result from the Daya Bay collaboration reveals both limitations and strengths of experiments studying antineutrinos at nuclear reactors.
Symmetry: Did You See it?
Boston University physicist Tulika Bose explains why there's more than one large, general-purpose particle detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
Scales of Time
Explore the fourth dimension, from processes that occur in billions of years down to tiny slivers of a second.
SLAC Celebrates Femtosecond Week
Join us for five days of ultrafast science from April 17 to 21.
Delving Into the 'Dark Universe' with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Two astrophysicists and a theoretical physicist discuss how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy by taking an unprecedentedly enormous scan of the sky.
Symmetry: Dark Matter Next Door? (Q&A)
Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy.
Symmetry: Instrument Finds New Earthly Purpose
Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth.
Symmetry: Wizardly Neutrinos
Why can a neutrino pass through solid objects?
Symmetry: Physics Love Poems
Advance your romance with science.
